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WALLS v. OLIN CORP., INC.

No. 87-835.

533 So.2d 1375 (1988)

Darrell WALLS, Plaintiff-First Appellant, v. OLIN CORPORATION, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees, Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., Intervenor-Second Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writs Denied January 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raleigh Newman, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-first appellant.

Jones, Tete, Nolen, Hanchey, Swift & Spears, William B. Swift, Lake Charles, for intervenor-second appellant.

Scofield, Bergstedt, Gerard, Mount & Veron, J., Michael Veron, Thomas Bergstedt, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellees.

Before FORET, DOUCET, and YELVERTON, JJ.

YELVERTON, Judge.

Phosgene gas was accidentally released from the chemical plant of Olin Corporation, Inc., near Lake Charles, Louisiana, on June 2, 1982. During the following year a number of lawsuits were filed against Olin, and others, seeking damages on account of this accident. Three of the suits, personal injury claims by Darrell Walls, Paul Diamond, and Jimmy Fontenot, were consolidated and heard by a jury in December 1986. At the trial, Olin stipulated that...

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