Texas Supreme Court

Larry Joe Colvin, Petitioner v. Red Steel Company, Respondents

December 12, 198428 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 153

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court affirmed the lower courts' judgment that Red Steel Company was neither negligent nor strictly liable for the injury to iron‑worker Larry Joe Colvin, because the company did not breach a duty of care nor could it have foreseen the misuse of its shortened purlins.