Texas Appeals Court Vacates Defense Verdict In Suit Over Injury At Funeral Home

Mealey's (March 23, 2020, 7:15 PM EDT) -- EASTLAND, Texas — A trial court should have included a question about negligence in its charge to a jury, which decided that a funeral home was not liable for a woman’s injuries after she was cut by a picture frame it loaned her, a Texas appeals court said March 19 in vacating the defense verdict (Lee Ann Colbert v. Brad Smith, et al., No. 11-18-00063, Texas App., 11th Dist., 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 2314)....