Marzell Ike DUMAS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
ANGUS CHEMICAL COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 11, 1999.
Rehearing Denied February 18, 1999.
Writ Denied April 30, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dennis W. Hennen, Monroe, Cusimano & Aswell by Harold W. Aswell, Farmerville, Chester A. Bradley, III & Associates by Chester A. Bradley, III, Monroe, Leger & Mestayer by Michael J. Mestayer, New Iberia, Fayard & Honeycutt by Calvin C. Fayard, Jr., Denham Spgs., Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by Charles H. Heck, Monroe, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotler by Russ M. Herman, New Orleans, deGravelles, Palmintier & Holthaus by David W. Robinson, Baton Rouge, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Lugenbuhl, Burke, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard by Claude F. Bosworth, New Orleans, Davenport, Files & Kelly by Thomas W. Davenport, Shane Craighead, Monroe, Hudson, Potts & Bernstein by Ben R. Hanchey, Monroe, Novack and Macey by Stephen Novack, Mitchell L. Marinello, P. Andrew Fleming, Chicago, IL, Bickel & Brewer by Michael J. Collins, Elizabeth Handschuch, Dallas, TX, Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway by Samuel Caverlee, Shreveport, McGlinchey Stafford Lang by James M. Garner, Deirdre C. McGlinchey, New Orleans, Hartline, Dacus, Dreyer & Kern by C. Vernon Hartline, Jr., Dallas, TX, Cotton, Bolton, Hoychick & Doughty by John Hoychick, Jr., Rayville, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Tolar & Sarpy by Peter A. Feringa, Jr., Douglas L. Grundmeyer, New Orleans, Kean, Miller, Hawthorn, D'Armond, McCowann & Jarman by J. Randy Young, Leonard L. Kilgore, III, Baton Rouge, Shotwell, Brown & Sperry by George M. Wear, Jr., C.A. Martin, III, Monroe, Lunn, Irion, Johnson, Salley & Carlisle by Penny N. Nowell, Shreveport, Rountree, Cox, Guin & Achee by Roland J. Achee, Shreveport, Arbour & Aycock by Larry Arbour, West Monroe, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft by Kenneth Coleman, Chadbourne & Parke by Jonathan Bank, Los Angeles, CA, Barkley & Thompson by Walter C. Thompson, Jr., Thomas E. Schwab, New Orleans, Zelle & Larson by Terrence C. McRea, Dallas, TX, Onebane, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell by Gary P. Kraus, Lafayette, for Defendants-Appelles.
Before MARVIN, C.J., GASKINS and PEATROSS, JJ.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.
MARVIN, C.J.
In this class action arising out of the 1991 explosion at the IMC Fertilizer plant at Sterlington that injured many plaintiffs, some fatally, who were inside the plant premises, the Plaintiffs Steering Committee [PSC] appeals a summary judgment dismissing the claims for loss of consortium and emotional damages of 270 plaintiffs who were outside the plant premises.
We affirm the summary judgment as to 267 of these plaintiffs, while reversing as...
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