PAPPION v. DOW CHEMICAL CO.

Civ. A. No. 83-2034.

627 F.Supp. 1576 (1986)

Whittaker PAPPION, et al., v. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

February 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Provost, Umphrey, Swearingen & Eddins, Kurt B. Chacon and Herschel Hobson, Port Authur, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Strong, Pipkin, Nelson & Bissell, David W. Ledyard, Beaumont, Tex., for Union Carbide Corp. and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Stockwell, Stevert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock, Robert W. Clements, Lake Charles, La., for Shell Oil Co., Texaco, Inc., Cities Service Co., Sun Oil Co., Mobil Oil Corp., BP Oil, Inc. and Exxon Co. U.S.A.

Brame, Bergstedt & Brame, John E. Bergstedt, Lake Charles, La., for Monsanto Co.

Woodley, Barnett, Cox, Williams, Fenet & Palmer, Edmund E. Woodley, Lake Charles, La., for Cypress Indus. Minerals Co., incorrectly named as Cypress Ind., Inc.

Wyckoff, Russel, Dunn & Frazier, Jerry Kacal, Houston, Tex., for The Dow Chemical Co.

Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer & Pierson, Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr., New Orleans, La., for B.F. Goodrich Co.

Scofield, Bergstedt, Gerard, Mount & Vernon, Thomas M. Bergstedt, John R. Pohorelsky, Lake Charles, La., for Dresser Industries.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L. Harvard Scott, III, Harry McCall, Jr., New Orleans, La., John R. Bowman, Legal Dept., E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, Del., for E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.

Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin, Arthur R. Almquist, Beaumont, Tex., for Uniroyal, Inc.

Weller, Wheelus & Green, George A. Weller, Beaumont, Tex., Michael S. O'Brien, Lafayette, La., for Ribelin Sales, Inc.

Rienstra, Rienstra & Dowell, Dale Dowell, Beaumont, Tex., for Mallinckrodt, Inc.

Sewell & Riggs, Robert Scott, Houston, Tex., for Penwalt Corp.

Raggio, Cappel, Chozen & Berniard, Frederick L. Cappel, Lake Charles, La., for The Milwhite Co., Inc.

Mouton & Roy, John A. Bivins, Lafayette, La., for Whittaker, Clark & Daniels, Inc.

Plauche, Smith & Nieset, James R. Nieset, Lake Charles, La., for Nalco Chemical Co.

W.F. Bliss, Jr., Chemical Solutions Corp., Alvin Tex., for Chemical Solutions Corp.

Preis, Kraft, Laborde & Daigle, Gregory J. Laborde and Christopher R. Philipp, Lafayette, La., for Vinings Chemical Co.

Allen, Gooch, Bourgeois, Breaux & Robison, St. Paul Bourgeois, Lafayette, La., for Alco Standard Corp. and Alco Chemical Corp.

Baggett, McCall & Ranier, Drew Ranier, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff Maurine Ann Pappion.

Brinkhaus, Dauzat, Falgoust & Caviness, Jimmy L. Dauzat, Opelousas, La., for Thompson-Hayward Chemical Co.

Camp, Carmouche, Barsh, Hunter, Gray, Hoffman & Gill, Randy J. Fuerst, Lake Charles, La., for Americhem, Inc.

Mathews & Atkinson, Daniel R. Atkinson and Richard Creed, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for R.T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc. and Ferro Corp.

Walter Conrad, Houston, Tex., for BP Oil, Mobil Oil, Shell Oil, Sun Refining, Cities Service Co., Phillips Chemical Co. and Phillips Petroleum.


RULING

NAUMAN S. SCOTT, District Judge.

This matter is now before us on Motions to Dismiss plaintiff's Fourth and Fifth Amended Complaints. In these motions, defendants seek dismissal of both the survival and wrongful death claims of Maurine Pappion ("plaintiff") and her ten major children. During oral argument on these motions, however, and in a supplemental memorandum filed on October 28, 1985, defendants agree that, for purposes of the motions now before...

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