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TANNER v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 71-H-1232.

340 F.Supp. 532 (1972)

George N. TANNER, Individually and wife, Stephanie Tanner et al., Plaintiffs, v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Galveston Division.

March 8, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. A. Greene, Jr., Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

B. D. McKinney, of Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., for Ethyl Corp., Olin Corp., Phosphate Chemicals, Inc., Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., Rohn & Haas Co., Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. and U. S. Ply-Wood-Champion Papers, Inc., defendants.

Charles L. Chester, of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Houston, Tex., for Armco Steel Corp. and Tenn-Tex Alloy Corp. of Houston, defendants.

William Key Wilde, of Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, Tex., for Parker Brothers & Co., defendant.

Ben H. Rice, III of Vinson, Elkins, Searls & Smith, Houston, Tex., for Crown Central Petroleum Corp., defendant.

John H. Boswell, of Boswell, O'Toole, Davis & Pickering, Houston, Tex., for Lubrizol Corp., defendant.

L. S. Carsey, of Fulbright, Crooker & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for Merichem Co. and Pennwalt Corp., defendants.

C. E. Nadeau, J. A. Evans, and W. D. Maer, Houston, Tex., for Shell Chemical Corp. and Shell Oil Co., defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, residents of Harris County, Texas, bring this action to recover for injuries allegedly sustained as a result of the exposure of their persons and their residence to air pollutants emitted by defendants' petroleum refineries and plants located along the Houston Ship Channel. It is asserted that plaintiff George W. Tanner, as a proximate result of these emissions, has suffered pulmonary damage with consequent...

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