McCLOUD, Chief Justice.
The controlling question is the applicability of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine to multiple defendants who exercise exclusive, as opposed to joint, control over separate and distinct equipment and activities which may have caused or contributed to cause injuries to the plaintiff.
Plaintiff, Bill Beakley, alleged that Dow Chemical Company (Dowell Division), Loffland Brothers Company, and Houston Oil and Minerals Corporation, were jointly...
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