South Texas Natural Gas Gathering Co. v. Guerra

OPINION

SHARPE, Justice.

This is a personal injury suit instituted by David Guerra, one of the appellees here, originally against Coastal States Gas Producing Company, for damages resulting from injuries received by him on October 1, 1968 in Hidalgo County, Texas, when a bulldozer struck and ruptured an underground gas transmission line near the place where Guerra was working. Because the pipeline was not owned by Coastal States, but rather by one of its wholly owned sub sidiaries, South Texas Natural Gas Gathering Company, a corporation, the latter was substituted as a defendant, and is the…