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HAMPTON v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.

Nos. 98 CA 0430 to 98 CA 0435.

730 So.2d 1091 (1999)

Leatha HAMPTON, et al. v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen. Trula McGhee, et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen. Teal Meyers, Sr., et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen. James O. Todd, Jr., and Susan W. Todd v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen. Bernice Ard, et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen. Richard Lindsey, et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership, and Farley Kinchen.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard McShan, Amite Frank C. Dudenhefer, New Orleans, Counsel for Appellees, Leatha Hampton, et al.

Cassandra Butler, Independence, Counsel for Appellees, Janice Brim, et al.

John Caskey, Greensburg, Brent D. Burley, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Appellees, Beatrice Ard, et al.

Scott Sledge, Hammond, Counsel for Appellees, James O. Todd, Jr., et al.

Lawrence Abbott, Patrice Oppenheim, New Orleans, Counsel for Appellant, Illinois Central Railroad Co.

Albert Hanemann, Jr., New Orleans, Counsel for Appellant, Borden Chemical and Plastics Limited Partnership.

Mark C. Dodart, New Orleans, H. Alston Johnson, Freddie Pitcher, Jr., Baton Rouge, Counsel for Appellant, C F Industries, Inc.

Before: FOIL, KUHN, and WEIMER, JJ.

WEIMER, J.

On February 14, 1995, a railroad tank car belonging to Borden Chemicals was stopped by law enforcement officials in an area north of the community of Fluker, Louisiana, just south of the Town of Tangipahoa, Louisiana, for emergency handling of a leakage of anhydrous ammonia. A several mile stretch of Louisiana Highway 51 extending from the Town of Tangipahoa to the Intersection of Louisiana Highway 10 in Fluker was blocked off for approximately 21 hours...

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