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NATIONS v. SUN OIL CO. (DELAWARE)

No. 82-4041.

695 F.2d 933 (1983)

Doyle NATIONS and Marie Nations, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SUN OIL COMPANY (DELAWARE) and Sun Production Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Gary Sutherland, Hattiesburg, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

C.R. McRae, Pascagoula, Miss., Alfred Lee Felder, McComb, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, RUBIN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Chief Judge:

Doyle Nations is the last of three employees of Mississippi Welding Service to sue Sun Oil Company as a result of an explosion at an oil well site. He is also the only survivor of the trio. A jury awarded verdicts of $500,000 to Nations and $150,000 to his wife Marie. Sun Oil appeals the consequent judgments on a number of grounds, but most importantly because of a supervening decision of the Mississippi Supreme Court. This decision requires that...

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