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Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co.

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
240 S.W. 517
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
37 of 37
Citing cases (total)
37
Treatment dates
1981
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. was overruled in part. The Texas Supreme Court rejected its former rule requiring separate, specific jury issues after Rule 277 changed in 1973.
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The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 37 flagged citations have been read; later opinions continue to apply Fox's separate holding on the duty of a party that takes control of an elevator.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

37 later cases cite Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co.; 37 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Texas Supreme Court expressly overruled Fox's requirement that each specific negligence issue be submitted separately to the jury.

    Burk Royalty Co. v. Walls · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    We now expressly overrule those cases that arose before the 1973 revision of Rule 277 and which followed the mandate of Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. requiring a submission of “each issue distinctly and separately, avoiding all intermingling” and stating “issues should be restricted to specific acts of negligence alleged and proven.”
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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