HOUSTON – An event rental business sued for foot and ankle injuries allegedly sustained by two mothers during an afterschool event last year at an elementary school asserts no wrongdoing.
According to recent Harris County District Court records, R. Schroeder Investments, LLC, doing business as Showcase Entertainment, entered an original answer into Catherine Yeo’s and Wendy Morgan’s lawsuit on July 16.
Yeo and Morgan allege that the business failed to maintain an obstacle course slide at the Mother & Son Game Night last November at Jeanette Hayes Elementary School.
“Too many parents and children were allowed into the obstacle course at one time or within a short period of time,” court papers filed on June 25 in the Harris County 165th District Court say.
The women claim that they “felt a sharp sudden pain and a worrisome crack in their feet” while going down the slide and were subsequently diagnosed with broken feet and ankle fractures that required surgeries.
The respondent says that the women’s injuries were caused by an unavoidable accident.
“The incident… was proximately or solely caused by superseding or intervening causes or by events or circumstances beyond the defendant’s right of control and for such events or circumstances for which the defendant is not liable,” its 4-page response says.
John Shepperd of the law firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP in Houston serves as the defendant’s lead counsel.
Harris County 165th District Court Case No. 2018-42083