WILLOWBROOK FOODS, INC. v. GRINNELL CORP.

No. 04-03-00659-CV.

147 S.W.3d 492 (2004)

WILLOWBROOK FOODS, INC.; Promised Land Foods, Inc.; and Sunday House Foods, Inc., Appellants, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION, Individually and d/b/a Grinnell Fire Protection Systems Company; Range Guard Industries, Inc.; Badger Fire Protection, Inc.; Farm Credit Leasing Services Corporation; Emerson Electric Company, Individually and d/b/a Chromalox, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Overruled September 23, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter T. Martin, Jerry D. Mason, Tab H. Keener, Peter T. Martin & Associates, Dallas, Patrick M. Dooley, Dooley, Hoerster & Sione, L.L.P., Fredericksburg, for appellants.

Edward A. Davis, C. Vernon Hartline, Jr., Larry D. Grayson, Hartline Dacus Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P., Jacquelyn A. Chandler, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Robert H. Fugate, Mark J. Dyer, T. King Fifer, Fanning Harper & Martinson, P.C., Dallas, Jeff D. Otto, Jessica L. Mangrum, Wade C. Crosnoe, Thompson, Coe, Cousins, & Irons, L.L.P., David E. Chamberlain, Chamberlain McHaney, Kurt H. Kuhn, Brown McCarroll, L.L.P., Austin, Kevin S. Besetzny, Novoselsky Law Office, Chicago, IL, Carl Robin Teague, San Antonio, Mac Gann, E. Ray Edwards, Gann & Edwards, Patrick D. McVey, Riddell Williams, P.S., Seattle, WA, for appellees.

Sitting ALMA L. LÓPEZ, Chief Justice, KAREN ANGELINI, Justice, SANDEE BRYAN MARION, Justice.


OPINION

Opinion by SANDEE BRYAN MARION, Justice.

This is an appeal from summary judgments rendered in favor of appellees, the defendants below. The underlying lawsuit was brought by the appellants, Willowbrook Foods, Inc.; Promised Land Foods, Inc.; and Sunday House Foods, Inc. (collectively, "plaintiffs"), for damages resulting from a fire that started in a turkey fryer at a turkey processing plant owned by Sunday House, Inc.1

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