Texas Appeals Court Declines to Interpret Contractual Relationship as ‘Joint Enterprise’

DALLAS — A Texas appellate court has granted summary judgment to a golf club that was sued by the widow of a man who died retrieving golf balls from a pond.

The Fifth District Court of Appeals entered its ruling for Irving Club Acquisition Corp. Jan. 31, saying that any contractual relationship between the country club and the deceased diver’s employer did not make the club liable under a “joint enterprise” theory.

Jennifer Logan sued ICAC and various other parties for negligence and premises liability after her husband, Christopher Logan, died while retrieving balls at the ICAC site.

Christopher was …