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TRAPNELL v. HUNTER

No. 13-90-007-CV.

785 S.W.2d 426 (1990)

Benjamin TRAPNELL, Individually and as Next Friend of Nicholas Trapnell, a Minor, and Polly Ann Haugh, Relators, v. Honorable Jack E. HUNTER, Judge of the 94th District Court of Nueces County, Texas, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

February 1, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Manning, Gary, Thomasson, Hall & Marks, Corpus Christi, for relators.

Roberta J. Hegland, Meredith, Donnell & Abernethy, John A. Smith, Kleberg & Head, Corpus Christi, William J. Collins, III, Eikenberg & Stiles, Houston, Aldean Kainz, Redford, Wray & Woolsey, Austin, Elizabeth V. Ledbetter, Redford, Wray & Woolsey, Corpus Christi, Robert Stecher, Groce, Locke & Hebdon, David Stephenson, Marshall N. Millard, Timothy S. Guill, Brock & Mathis, P.C., Phillip Marzec, J. Michael Myers, Groce & Locke & Hebdon, San Antonio, Randell A. Kocurek, Brown, Simms, Wise & White, Ben Roeder, Eikenburg & Stiles, Houston, for real parties in interest.

Before BENAVIDES, UTTER, and SEERDEN, JJ.

OPINION

BENAVIDES, Justice.

This is a mandamus proceeding. Relators are the husband, son, and mother of Susan Trapnell, who died on August 10, 1984 as an alleged result of ingesting foods containing sulfites at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Officer's Club. Relators initially brought a wrongful death action in a State District Court on May 22, 1986 against the manufacturers of the sulfite and the foods containing it on a theory of products liability...

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