TORRES v. XOMOX CORP.

Docket No. A067409.

49 Cal.App.4th 1 (1996)

MILDRED TORRES et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. XOMOX CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant. RICHARD SORNBORGER, Plaintiff, v. XOMOX CORPORATION, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

August 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Anderlini, Guheen, Finkelstein, Emerick & McSweeney, Anderlini, Finkelstein, Emerick & McSweeney and Merrill G. Emerick for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Snell & Wilmer and Richard A. Derevan for Defendant and Appellant.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

HANLON, J.

Maintenance worker Luis Torres died from burns he received at the Rhone-Poulenc chemical plant in Martinez on June 22, 1992, when he was doused with sulfuric acid sludge which escaped from a valve manufactured by Xomox Corporation (Xomox). His family filed a wrongful death and survival action against Xomox and Charles Lowe Company...

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