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SEMINOLE PIPELINE CO., MAPCO, INC. v. BROAD LEAF PARTNERS, INC.

No. 14-96-00825-CV.

979 S.W.2d 730 (1998)

SEMINOLE PIPELINE COMPANY, MAPCO, INC., and Mid-america Pipeline Company, Appellants, v. BROAD LEAF PARTNERS, INC., Pierre Cavaness, Carolyn Cavaness, Betty Crawford, Dr. Robert Hardie, Herbert Klatte, Esther Mae Klatte, James Jeffress, Sonya Jeffress, James Nitsch, Lois Nitsch, Charles Nitsch, Roy White, Dorothy White, David Schulz, Vicki Schulz, W.W. O'Donnell, Regina O'Donnell, W.H. Tonn, III, and Jeanne Tonn, as Independent Executrix of the Estate of W.H. Tonn, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

October 15, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin F. Risley, Frank W. Gerold, Houston, William Charles Powers, Austin, for appellants.

Joseph A. Garnett, Lauren L. Beck, Houston, George Chandler, Lufkin, Richard Sheehy, Walter Zivley, Michael C. Clark, Houston, for appellees.

Before YATES, HUDSON and FOWLER, JJ.

OPINION

HUDSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a suit arising out of an explosion at an underground salt-dome storage facility and pipeline pumping station. Twenty-two plaintiffs sued appellants, Seminole Pipeline Company, MAPCO, Incorporated, and Mid-America Pipeline, for damages resulting from the explosion.1

On appellants' motion, the trial was bifurcated. Phase one of the trial resolved liability issues on actual...

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