WOOLARD v. MOBIL PIPE LINE COMPANY

No. 72-2726.

479 F.2d 557 (1973)

Mrs. Gilbert Lee WOOLARD, a widow, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MOBIL PIPE LINE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Jeff Crane, Jr., Houston, Tex., William H. Tabb, Ronald L. Neill, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

W. W. Watkins, Houston, Tex., William E. Townsley, Beaumont, Tex., John M. O'Quinn, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, THORNBERRY and DYER, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 16, 1973.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

On the night of June 20, 1969, Gilbert Lee Woolard, an employee of appellant Mobil Pipe Line Company, was working at that company's Beaumont, Texas, metering station with two other men: Red Marsh, another Pipe Line Company employee, and Walton Goodwin, an employee of appellant Mobil Oil Corporation, which leased the land on which the metering station was located to Mobil Pipe...

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