# General Chemical Corp. v. De La Lastra

> Texas Supreme Court · June 3, 1993 · 852 S.W.2d 916

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9645266

## Case

- **Full name:** GENERAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. Gonzalo DE LA LASTRA and Amada De La Lastra, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estates of Gustavo De La Lastra and Jose Eduardo De La Lastra, Decedents, Respondents
- **Court:** Texas Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 3, 1993
- **Citations:** 852 S.W.2d 916; 1993 WL 46530
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cornyn
- **Judges:** Gonzalez, Cornyn, Hecht, Phillips, Enoch
- **Cited by:** 180 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9645266

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that application of federal maritime law can be waived by failing to object to the application of state law in jury charge and that General Chemical invited error by not objecting to, and then requesting, “the very issues that it now seeks to avoid.”
- recognizing, in case applying federal maritime law in Texas state court, that federal law “dictates the substantive law that governs that claim’s resolution” but does not affect state court’s jurisdiction over claim
- concluding that the application of maritime law can be waived
- stating that the post-enactment statement of a legislator, "even a statute's principal author, is not legislative history controlling the construction to be given a statute"

## Opinion text

CORNYN, Justice,
concurring.
[Filed June 3, 1993]
I agree with the court that there was some evidence of gross negligence presented in the trial court. I concur in the judgment rather than join the court’s opinion, however, because I cannot agree with the remainder of the opinion.

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