Pon Lip Chew v. Gilliland

GREENHILL, Justice.

Pon Lip Chew alleged that he was bodily thrown off the loading platform of the Rio Grande Produce Company in El Paso by Craig Gilliland, Jr., president and general manager of the company. He suffered bodily injury including the fracturing of two vertebrae in his back, and brought suit against Gilliland and the company. The jury answered the special issues submitted to it, and returned its verdict into court. The trial judge, upon inspecting the answers, considered that there was a conflict in some of the jury’s answers. So he instructed them to retire to further deliberate…