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ENSERCH CORP. v. PARKER

No. C-9207.

794 S.W.2d 2 (1990)

ENSERCH CORPORATION d/b/a Lone Star Gas Company, Petitioner, v. Mary Jean PARKER, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Billy Joe Parker, Deceased, and as Next Friend of Daniel Edward Parker et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled September 6, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Knapek, Dallas, for petitioner.

Charles W. McGarry, Richard N. Countiss, Michael W. Huddleston, Kenneth J. Mighell, Dallas, for respondents.

OPINION

SPEARS, Justice.

This is a wrongful death action in which the issue is the enforceability of an indemnity agreement. Billy Joe Parker and Preston Edward Watson were asphyxiated when a gasket blew out causing a valve to leak natural gas into the concrete manhole vault where they were working. Parker and Watson were employed by J.W. "Bill" Christie, Inc., a company servicing the pipeline owned and operated by Enserch Corporation through its division...

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