Legal Opinion
Shell Pipeline Corp. v. Coastal States Trading, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided February 15, 1990No. 01-89-00452-CVPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JACKSON B. SMITH, Jr., Justice (Retired).
Shell Pipeline Corporation (Shell) brings this appeal from a judgment awarding Coastal States Trading, Inc. (Coastal) damages in the amount of $1,762,350. In a nonjury trial, the court found that Shell was 50% negligent, and that Coastal and its trading partners, Basin, Inc. (Basin) and Basin Refining, Inc. (Basin Refining), were also 50% negligent in causing the delivery of 93,000 barrels of crude oil to the wrong consignee, and awarded Coastal one-half of its $3,524,700 damages.
Initially, Coastal sought relief in the federal district court.…
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