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COLONIAL PIPELINE CO. v. BROWN

44925, 44926.

258 Ga. 115 (1988)

365 S.E.2d 827

COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY v. BROWN et al. COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY v. WRIGHT CONTRACTING COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied March 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landau, Davis & Farkas, James V. Davis, Neely & Player, Edgar A. Neely III, Ross Arnold, Harold N. Hill, Jr., for appellant.

Mark A. Gonnerman, Hilliard P. Burt, John F. Salter, for appellees.

Spearman, Dunham & Gaugher, William L. Spearman, amicus curiae.

SMITH, Justice.

This appeal consolidates two related cases stemming from the destruction of a bulldozer after it hit and ruptured Colonial Pipeline's underground petroleum pipeline. The owner of the bulldozer, Wright Contracting Company, sued Colonial, Baxter Brown, the real estate developer who hired Wright to do grading work, and Malcolm Burnsed, the surveyor who did the grading plan. Case no. 44925 is Colonial's appeal from a jury verdict requiring Colonial to...

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