CLARK v. TENNECO, INC.

No. 8584.

353 So.2d 418 (1977)

Berthella Clark, wife of and Eddie CLARK, as administrators of the Estate of their Deceased son, Ronald Joseph Clark v. TENNECO, INC. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Tenneco Oil Company, Charles Kilgore, Paul Floth, Ray Brooks, Dennis Caballero, C. W. Rackley, A. R. Dudley, L. R. Spence, Delta Field Erection, Inc., Harding J. Alleman, Sr., E. S. Odum, Earnest S. Odum and Hal S. Phillips and their Insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1978.

Writ Refused February 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, C. William Bradley, Jr., Edgard, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, John C. Combe, Jr., Howard E. Sinor, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Charles R. Maloney, John J. McCann, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellee.

Before REDMANN, SCHOTT and BEER, JJ.


BEER, Judge.

Mrs. Berthella Clark and Eddie Clark, surviving parents of Ronald Joseph Clark, appeal from the trial court's maintaining of an exception of no right of action which dismissed their suit. Their son had been killed in an explosion at the Chalmette, Louisiana plant of Tenneco, Inc. on August 12, 1976. He was survived by his wife, Adele Newman Clark, whom he had married on December 16, 1972, but the couple had lived together for only a short period following...

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