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O'BRIEN v. DELTA GAS, INC.

No. 13278.

426 So.2d 262 (1983)

Patricia Ford O'BRIEN, et al. v. DELTA GAS, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gauthier, Murphy, Sherman, McCabe & Chehardy, Wendell H. Gauthier, Robert M. Murphy, Kenner, William A. Glennon, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Johnston & Duplass, Robert M. Johnston, Stassi & Rausch, Joseph W. Rausch, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before GULOTTA, WARD and CIACCIO, JJ.

GULOTTA, Judge.

Defendant, NGO Chemical Division of Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (NGO), appeals from a jury award exceeding $3.1 million to plaintiffs—four adults and two children— for injuries from a residential gas explosion. We amend and affirm.

The explosion on May 29, 1977, in a rented dwelling in Empire, Louisiana, injured plaintiffs, Rose and Glenn Fisher, Lawrence Latour, and Patricia O'Brien, and seriously injured her two young children...

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