Posted on 01/09/2020 7:12:14 AM PST by bgill
A poisonous spider bite in the hill country has turned into a lengthy legal battle between two men. The case has now made it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court.
The drama began in December 2014, when Henry McCall, a caretaker on an Airbnb property in Fredericksburg was bit by a brown recluse spider...
McCall filed a lawsuit against the property owner Homer Hillis, who claimed he should be liable for his suffering since he didn’t warn him of the possible danger at the property.
Homer Hillis is taking the case to the Texas Supreme Court. He argues being held liable would overturn a legal doctrine, ferae naturae, which does not require landowners to inform guests of property conditions, like the presence of poisonous spiders.
The two legged black widows are usually pretty as well.
I have a clean sense of humor....
....that film is just smutty!
Nothing against you, but Jennifer Aniston gets on my last nerve.
Thanks anyway.....I’ll pass on the link
“Bited”, yes of course, I stand humbly corrected.
AMEN!
Just another ignorant A$$HOLE and lawyer looking for a payday!
Don’t you mean “he done got bit by a spodder”?
Actually, yes, that is better !
My bite was no big deal. Big blister followed by a scar.
Brown recluse? I thought this was an Obama thread.
Too many are.
Having had a relative find a brown recluse at their new apartment, I looked up some studies. One included a house with 25,000 of the things. No one who lived there was ever bitten by one.
The recluses rarely bite anyone (they are called recluses for a reason), and bites rarely have significantly more effect than other spider bites, but when they do, the wounds are horrific.
The usual for ambulance chasers is around 25% pre-trial, a third at trial, 40% after appeal. But first take off the cost of the doctors and other experts that testify that have been paid by the lawyers.
Search results:
Are Texas spiders poisonous?
Venomous Texas Spiders. Texas has two venomous species of spiders, the black widow (Latrodectus mactans) and the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa). ... The black widow’s venom is reportedly 15 times more toxic than the venom of the prairie rattlesnake.
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