AMERADA HESS CORP. v. GARZA

No. 13-95-554-CV.

973 S.W.2d 667 (1996)

AMERADA HESS CORPORATION, et al., Appellants, v. Jorge GARZA, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled October 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Hill, Jr., Joseph Edward Herbert, James E. Essig, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, Houston, Rick G. Strange, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Midland, George Scott Christian, Austin, amicus curiae.

Anne Michelle Pike, Marie R. Yeates, J. Harrell Feldt, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, James L. Cornell, R. Scott Hogarty, Kevin Risley, N. Terry Adams, Jr., Gilpin, Paxson & Bersch, Mary Lou Strange, Houston, Ken Fields, Tom Hermansen, Hunt, Hermansen, McKibben & Barger, Corpus Christi, Michael M. Gibson, Bayko, Gibson, Carnegie, Hagan, Houston, R.O.Faulk, Richard Marshall Parr, Kevin L. Colbert, S. Shawn Stephens, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Houston, Jeffrey K. Sherwood, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Gregory T. Perkes, Wood, Burney, Cohn & Viles, Corpus Christi, Richard J. Wilson, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Robert J. Knapp, Thomas J. Meek, Legal Dept. Koch Industries, Wichita, KA, Shirley Selz, Gary, Thomasson, Hall & Marks, Corpus Christi, Ben A. Donnell, Meredith, Donnell & Abernethy, Corpus Christi, Eva M. Fromm, Fulbright & Jaworski, Carla J. Bishop, Gilpin, Paxson & Bersch, Houston, for appellants.

Shari A. Wright, Reich & Binstock, Houston, H. Lee Godfrey, Susman, Godfrey & McGowan, J. Hoke Peacock, III, Dennis Craig Reich, Reich & Binstock, Houston, Steve T. Hastings, Alberto R. Huerta, Huerta, Hastings, Allison, L.L.P., Corpus Christi, Richard Drubel, Stuart Jonathan Dow, Susman & Godfrey, Robert Jay Binstock, Reich & Binstock, Houston, Jeanette Cantu-Bazar, Corpus Christi, for appellees.

Before DORSEY, CHAVEZ and RODRIGUEZ, JJ.


OPINION

CHAVEZ, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court's order certifying a class action. In challenging the certification, appellants filed two separate briefs raising substantially similar points of error. We affirm.

Appellees (hereinafter "the named plaintiffs")1 filed six separate suits against appellants2 complaining...

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