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TEXACO REFINING AND MARKEING, INC. v. ESTATE OF DAU VAN TRAN

No. D-0473.

808 S.W.2d 61 (1991)

TEXACO REFINING AND MARKEING, INC. and Texaco Marine Services, Inc., Petitioners, v. ESTATE OF DAU VAN TRAN, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled May 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Farrow, Houston, David E. Keltner, Fort Worth, John F. Waldo, Houston, for petitioners.

Jon B. Burmeister, Everett H. Sanderson, George Sladczyk, Jr., Steven C. Barkley, Beaumont, for respondents.

OPINION

GAMMAGE, Justice.

Dau Van Tran was crushed to death when a large wave, purportedly caused by the tanker TEXACO CALIFORNIA'S excessive speed, washed ashore just as he exited the water between a dock barge and a shrimp boat. Suit was filed against the tanker's owners and operators, Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc. and Texaco Marine Services, Inc. ("Texaco"), under the Texas Wrongful Death and Survivorship...

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