Wise Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. American Hat Company

OPINION

SUE WALKER, JUSTICE

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellee and Cross-Appellant American Hat Company (AHC) sued Appellant and Cross-Appellee Wise Electric Cooperative, Inc., for negligence following a catastrophic grass fire that consumed roughly. 1,200 acres and was caused by an overhead service wire becoming disconnected at a Wise Electric utility pole. Thick smoke from the fire damaged AHC’s inventory of 490,-092 hats and “hat bodies”; much of this inventory was stored , in twelve forty-foot sea containers parked outside AHC’s western-hat manufacturing plant in Bowie, Texas. Following a five-day…