CHI ENERGY, INC. v. URIAS

No. 08-02-00475-CV.

156 S.W.3d 873 (2005)

CHI ENERGY, INC. and Chi Operating, Inc., Appellants, v. Gabriela Reyes URIAS, Individually and as Next Friend of Natalie Ann Urias, a Minor, Gilbert U. Urias, Sr., Maria Urias, Lucy Pallanes, and Isabel Pallanes, Jesusita Martinez Pallanes, Individually and as a Representative of the Estate of Norman Pallanes, Deceased, also as Next Friend of Zacariah Adam Pallanes, Jeremiah Matthew Pallanes, Jonathan Elijah Pallanes, John Michael Pallanes, Hanna Angelita Pallanes, Minor Children of Decedent, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled March 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary M. Bellair, Craig, Terrill & Hale, L.L.P., Lubbock, Scott M. Tidwell, Tidwell & Tidwell LLP, Odessa, for Appellants.

Steven L. Hughes, Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi & Galatzan, El Paso, for Appellees.

Before Panel No. 4 BARAJAS, C.J., LARSEN, and McCLURE, JJ.


OPINION

RICHARD BARAJAS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in a premises liability case that resulted in the deaths of Norman Pallanes and Gilbert Urias during the construction of improvements to an oil well site. Appellant Chi Energy, Inc. was the owner of the leasehold interest in the oil well involved in this incident. Chi Energy, Inc, operating through its subsidiary, Chi Operating, Inc., undertook the drilling of an oil well...

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