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POULOS v. HPC, INC.

No. 87-284.

765 P.2d 364 (1988)

Carol Lee POULOS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Shawn Howard Poulos, Deceased, for and on Behalf of Michael George Poulos; Carol Lee Poulos; George Michael Poulos; Deborah Lee Poulos; and Steven Michael Poulos, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. HPC, INC., a Delaware corporation; Home Petroleum Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation; Walter (Jack) Stephen; Norm Stephen; and Richard B. Kennison, Appellees (Defendants), Mountain States Hot Oil Service, Inc., a Wyoming corporation; S.E.M. Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation, a Division of Valmont Oilfield Products Company, now known as Valmont Equipment Company (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 8, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Shockey of Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, for appellants.

John James (argued), of James & James, Rock Springs, and Gary D. Stott and Robert G. Gilchrist of Richards, Brandt, Miller & Nelson, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellees.

Before CARDINE, C.J., THOMAS, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ., and BROWN, J. Ret.

CARDINE, Chief Justice.

Appellant Carol L. Poulos, the personal representative of the estate of her deceased son, Shawn Poulos, appeals from the district court's order granting summary judgment to all appellee-defendants in this wrongful death action. The dispositive issue on appeal is whether a genuine issue of material fact existed on the question of culpable negligence.

We affirm in part and reverse in part.

On April 13, 1982, eighteen-year-old...

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