GILCREASE v. TESORO PETROLEUM CORP.

No. 04-00-00699-CV.

70 S.W.3d 265 (2001)

Fred GILCREASE & Dorothy Gilcrease, Appellants, v. TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

December 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol P. Lomax, James L. Branton, Branton & Hall, P.C., San Antonio, Charles S. Siegel, Fernando P. Arias, Sherrie Pouzar, Waters & Kraus, L.L.P., Dallas, for Appellant.

Robert G. Newman, Lisa Horvath Shub, W. Wendell Hall, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., San Antonio, for Appellee.

Sitting: PHIL HARDBERGER, Chief Justice, PAUL W. GREEN, Justice and SARAH B. DUNCAN, Justice.


OPINION

PAUL W. GREEN, Justice.

Fred and Dorothy Gilcrease ("the Gilcreases") appeal the trial court's entry of summary judgment in favor of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation in two issues, claiming Alaska's ten-year statute of repose does not apply to bar their claims. We affirm the summary judgment.

Background

After Fred Gilcrease, now deceased, discovered he had mesothelioma in 1999, he and his wife, Dorothy, filed suit against the...

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