McAvoy v. TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION

HENLEY, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the plaintiff, Ralph McAvoy, a citizen of Arkansas, against the defendants, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern), a Delaware corporation, H. C. Price Corporation (Price), a California corporation, and Brown & Root, Inc. (Brown & Root), a Texas corporation, to recover a sum in excess of the jurisdictional minimum as damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in the State of Kentucky on August 15, 1958. It is alleged that plaintiff’s injuries resulted from a pipe line explosion proximately caused by the joint…