SCURLOCK OIL CO. v. BIRCHFIELD

No. 18012.

630 S.W.2d 674 (1981)

SCURLOCK OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. Paul Alfred BIRCHFIELD, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

December 31, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Lee Lewis, Jr., Ross, Griggs & Harrison, Houston, for appellant.

David Frishman, Katy, for appellees.

Before EVANS, C. J., and WARREN and BASS, JJ.


BASS, Justice.

Appellee recovered judgment for $229,700 for personal injuries sustained while sanding an oil slick roadway.

In two points of error appellant urges that: (1) appellant owed no legal duty to appellee because appellee was not within the class of persons that the appellant had a duty to protect and, (2) appellant's negligence in spilling the oil on the roadway had come to rest and appellee's subsequent accident was an isolated, unforeseeable occurrence...

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