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AUSTIN — A $1 million
award to a Port Neches woman
for the mental anguish and loss
of companionship she suffered
because of the 1979 electrocu
tion of her son was not excessive,
the Texas Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
The high court refused to
overturn a judgment against
Gulf State’s Utilities and South
western Bell Telephone that re
sulted from the death of 13-
year-old Vernon Lee Johnson.
The youth was electrocuted
when he chased a Frisbee under
a metal storage building while
playing at his father’s house.
According to court records,
an electrical line owned by Gulf
States had sagged and made
contact with the building be
cause it was suspended from a
broken Southwestern Bell utility
pole.
The award, which totalled
SL020,000, was to be given en
tirely to the child’s mother,
Paula Reed. Reed and her hus
band, Vernon Lee Johnson, Sr.,
were separated.
According to court testi
mony, Reed subsequently suf
fered a “severe depressive reac
tion,” weight loss and had trou
ble sleeping.
A district court jury awarded
her $500,000 for mental
anguish, $500,000 and for loss
of “society” with her son,
$20,000 for the loss of contribu
tions her son would have made
after reaching age 18 and
$60,000 for lost earnings and
past and future medical ex
penses.
Gulf Stales and Bell hat
argued against the award
saying the child’s death was ai
unavoidable accident and tha
he should not have gone unde
the building.
They also argued the aware
was excessive and that at least;
portion of Reed’s anguish wa:
caused by the fact she shot anc
killed a man “six or sever
months” after her son’s death.
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RAYMONDVILLE— Inves
tigators speculated three people
found dead Wednesday in a ru
ral area of Willacy Gounty in far
south Texas were poisoned by a
fertilizer residue found inside a
nearby abandoned building.
Autopsies were performed
on the bodies, but officials said it
would take several days before
toxicology tests showed whether
the victims were poisoned.
Willacy Gounty Sheriff’s De
partment spokesman Larry
Spence said a passerby spotted
one the bodies near a roadway 9
miles southwest of Raymondvil-
le about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Spence said investigators
found the other two bodie near
an abandoned out building
where the trio apparently
sought refuge from rain late
Tuesday.
Spence said the three, a
young man, a young woman and
an older women, appeared to be
Salvadorans who had entered
the United States illegally.
“We haven’t been able to
come up with anything that
shows foul play,” said Spence.
! “There are no marks on the
i bodies.
“Apparently they went in this
building last night to get out of
the rain and we think maybe
they ate some fertilizer in there
and were poisoned,” Spence
said.
Dr. David Flory, who per
formed an autopsy on the older
woman’s body at Valley Baptist
Hospital in Harlingen, said a
chemical analysis and toxicology
tests well be done at Department
of Public Safety labs in Austin to
determine if the three were
poisoned.
Flory confirmed there were
no marks or signs of violence on
the bodies.
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