In re TUTU WELLS CONTAMINATION LITIGATION.
Rhoda J. HARTHMAN, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
TEXACO INC., et al., Defendants.
District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Thomas and St. John.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 20, 1995.
December 20, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard R. Knoepfel, Briggs, Knoepfel & Ronca, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Jeffrey T. Eddy, Joseph B. Cox, Jr., James M. Hughes, Charles W. Patrick, Jr., Frederick J. Jekel, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, South Carolina, and Thomas Alkon, Gordon Rhea, Thomas H. Hart, III, Alkon, Rhea & Hart, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for PID-Harthmans.
Robert T. Lehman, Debra Rosen, William J. O'Kane, Christopher Gibson, Archer & Greiner, Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Douglas L. Capdeville, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for Esso Standard Oil, S.A., Ltd., Esso Virgin Islands, Inc., and Esso Standard Oil, Co. (P.R.).
Richard E. Daley, Law Offices of Pattie & Daley, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Kell S. Damsgaard, Terri Jacobsen, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA, and William Stack, Houston, Texas, for Exxon Corporation.
Francis E. Jackson, Jr., Jacqueline Drew, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for Daniel Bayard.
John Newman, Diane Siana, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., Morristown, New Jersey, and Kevin A. Rames, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for Paul Lazare, Andreas Gal, The Duplan Corp., Laga Industries, Ltd., Panes Industries Inc. and Panex Co.
District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Thomas and St. John.
BROTMAN, District Judge, Sitting by Designation.
Presently before this court is the Motion of Esso and Exxon For Summary Judgment as to All Claims Based on the PID Plaintiffs' Assumption of the Risk.1 For the reasons set forth below, the court must deny this motion.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Most of the underlying facts of this litigation were set forth in an Opinion dated August 13, 1993, published at
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