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NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC. v. EMMONS

No. 09-00-073 CV.

50 S.W.3d 103 (2001)

NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC., North American Van Lines of Texas, Inc., Lufkin Moving and Storage Company, and Edwin Cartagena, Appellants, v. Charles E. EMMONS, Ruth Murphy, Rebekah Walding, Wanda Kruse, and Ford Motor Company, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided June 28, 2001.

Rehearing Overruled August 9, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Hatchell, Greg Smith, Eric Findlay, Maria Sowders, Ramey & Flock, P.C., Tyler, Robert T. Cain, Jr., Kenzy D. Hallmark, Paul E. White, Zeleskey, Cornelius, Hallmark, Roper & Hicks, L.L.P., Lufkin, Kevin D. Jewell, Robert H. Bateman, Steven J. Knight, Magenheim, Bateman & Helfand, P.L.L.C., Houston, for appellants.

Darrin Walker, Chandler Law Offices, Lufkin, Robert Celedonia, III, Celedonia & Klitsas, P.C., Houston, Michael W. Eady, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, L.L.P., Austin, for appellees.

Before WALKER, C.J., BURGESS and GAULTNEY, JJ.

OPINION

GAULTNEY, Justice.

Following a jury trial, the trial court entered a total judgment for plaintiffs of $19,858,638.08, including actual and punitive damages. No defendant challenges the amount of actual damages awarded. This appeal from that judgment presents a veritable sea of other legal issues: legal causation, joint and several liability, negligence per se, the propriety of certain jury instructions...

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