CELANESE CHEMICAL CO. INC. v. BURLESON

No. 01-90-00896-CV.

821 S.W.2d 257 (1991)

CELANESE CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., n/k/a Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group, Inc., Appellant, v. Jimmy Lee BURLESON, Individually and as Next Friend of Catherine Nickole Burleson, Roni Jo Burleson, and Jimmy Lee Burleson, Jr., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben A. Donnell, Houston, L. Nelson Hall, Kathryn F. Green, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

W. Douglas Mathews, James Patrick Smith, Houston, for appellees.

Before HUGHES, COHEN and PRICE JJ.


OPINION

HUGHES, Justice.

Celanese Chemical Company, Inc. (Celanese), appeals from a judgment ordering it to pay a fee of $100,000 to the attorney ad litem of the minor plaintiffs, the Burleson children appellees.

On January 7, 1987, the plaintiff and appellee, Jimmy Lee Burleson, an employee of Mundy Contractors, Inc., was injured while working as a pipefitter at the Celanese Bayport Marine Terminal. Burleson sued Celanese for negligence, seeking...

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