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OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. v. ESTATE OF BURT

Nos. 94-0259, 94-0262.

897 S.W.2d 765 (1995)

OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC., Fibreboard Corp., Keene Corp. and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp., Petitioners v. ESTATE OF Otis BURT, Mable Burt, and Ronald Burt et al., Respondents. OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC., Fibreboard Corp., Keene Corp. and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp., Petitioners v. Erma Rae FRILEY, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Joseph Friley, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided April 27, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Powers, Houston, Thomas M. Peterson, Meredith N. Landy, San Francisco, CA, Richard L. Scheer, David W. Starnes, Beaumont, James D. Miller, Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Kerrie C. Dent, Washington, DC, Kenneth C. Baker, Shelley Van Natter, Houston, Neil J. Kiely, Washington, DC, Catherine Masters Epstein, Chicago, IL, G. Luke Ashley, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Dallas, Michael K. Rose, Beaumont, John Cummings, San Francisco, CA, Nicholas S. Baldo, and R. Lyn Stevens, Beaumont, for petitioners.

John E. Williams and Richard N. Countill, Houston, for respondents.

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS

Justice HIGHTOWER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all Justices join.

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