Seven Seas Fish Market, Inc. v. Koch Gathering System, Inc.

OPINION

RODRIGUEZ, Justice.

Seven Seas Fish Market, Inc., and five other corporations, appellants, appeal from a summary judgment in favor of appellees, Koch Gathering Systems, Inc. and Richard Tuttle, individually, and as a representative of Koch. Appellants challenge the summary judgment by three issues. We reverse and remand.

Appellants are Texas corporations engaged in the wholesale purchasing and selling of seafood. On or about October 8, 1994, an oil pipeline owned by Koch ruptured, causing crude oil to leak into Gum Hollow Creek. The creek deposited oil into Nueces, Corpus Christi, and…