Texas Requires a Finding That Joint Enterprisers Have a Community of Pecuniary Interest in the Common Purpose of their Undertaking in Order to Impose Vicarious Liability or Impute Contributory Negligence

Discusses how Texas lags behind in the trend of authority by retaining and extending the presumption of equal rights of control for joint enterprise purposes. The author observes how the new common pecuniary interest requirement eliminates possibly undesirable effects of the presumption with respect to the applicability of Texas doctrine of joint enterprise.