Legal Opinion

Smith v. FMC Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided January 23, 1985No. Nos. 82-2047, 82-2051PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARRETT, Circuit Judge.

Carla Kay Smith (Smith) and Brenda June Ferguson (Ferguson), appellants, seek review of an adverse judgment entered in favor of FMC after a jury trial. Smith and Ferguson’s identical actions for damages for the wrongful deaths of their husbands were consolidated for trial by the district court. The relevant facts are not in dispute.

On June 13, 1979, appellants’ husbands, Alan Smith and Larry Hayes, were employed as iron workers for Brown & Root, a general contracting firm, engaged in the construction of the Sooner Electric Generating Plant near Ponca City, Oklahoma.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Kirkland v. General Motors CorporationSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1974
  2. Jordan v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1979
  3. Hogue v. A. B. Chance Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1978
  4. Catherine Bingham v. Hollingsworth Manufacturing Co., Inc., a Texas CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1982

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Morrison Knudsen Corp. v. Fireman's Fund InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1999
  2. Patton v. Hutchinson Wil-Rich Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1993
  3. Benny Earl Farrell, an Oklahoma Citizen v. Klein Tools, Inc., a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989
  4. Anixter v. Home-Stake Production Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996
  5. Ivan A. Anixter Blanche Dickenson Dolly K. Yoshida, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1971 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1970 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1969 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1968 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1967 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1966 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1965 Program Operating Corporation Robert S. Trippet E.M. Kunkel Thomas A. Landrith J.D. Metcalfe H.B. Gutelius H.L. Fitzgerald, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr., A.M. Anderson Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, as Trustee for Merl McHenry Joseph A. Buda, Arthur Bueche, George V.T. And Helen Burgess Dewey J. Cali William H. Colquhoun S.W. Corbin Robert B. Coburn Vigil B. Day William H. Dennler Mario Dimartino Stella Dimartino John M. Evans Margaret C. Everett Isador H. Finkelstein Joseph H. Gauss H.W. Gouldthorpe Ralph Hart James J. Hayes Earl D. Hilburn Joseph E. Horak Gerald A. Hoyt Richard M. Hurst Ralph Iannucci Emily Iannucci Milton F. Kent Howard Kicherer Elizabeth Kicherer John Kokoszka Millie B. Lassing Joseph Levin Marie F. Levin John D. Lockton Dennis G. Lyons Ferdinand F. McAllister Russell W. McFall James Madden Albert Manganelli Nicholas A. Marchese Stanley A. Marks John G. Martin C.W. Moeller Andrew Overby Carl E. Palermo Frank A. Palermo Roy T. Parker, Jr. Bruce M. Robertson D.D. Scarff M.L. Scarff A.E. Schubert William R. Smart E. Starr Janet G. Stewart Gerald Toomey Paul Townsend Vernon Underwood H.B. Waldron, Jr. Ted B. Westfall v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1970 Program Operating Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert S. Trippet Harry Heller Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, a Partnership Thomas A. Landrith, Jr. E.M. Kunkel McAfee Taft, Mark, Bond, Rucks, and Woodruff, a Professional Corporation and Its Professional Employees and Attorneys and Partners, Their Successors and Assigns, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr., A.M. Anderson Richard J. Anton Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, as Trustee for Merl McHenry E.P. Bernuth, Sophie K. Bernuth, Joseph A. Buda, George and Helen Burgess Dewey Cali Robert B. Coburn Coburn & Libby, Inc. Edward v. Coonan S.W. Corbin William H. Dennler Mario Dimartino Stella Dimartino John Evans Margaret C. Everett L.L. Ferguson Isador H. Finkelstein H.W. Gouldthorpe George L. Haller Jack Hanson Ralph Hart F.H. Holt Joseph E. Horak Gerald A. Hoyt Howard G. Kicherer Elizabeth C. Kicherer John Kokoszka Millie B. Lassing Joseph Levin Marie Levin John D. Lockton D.W. Lynch D.B. Lynch Dennis G. Lyons Ferdinand F. McAllister Russell McFall James F. Madden Albert Manganelli Nicholas Marchese Stanley A. Marks C.W. Moeller William H. Mortensen Carl Olson Patricia Olson Carl Palermo Frank Palermo Roy T. Parker Helen M. Reeder D.D. Scarff M.L. Scarff Richard Scott Louis P. Singer William R. Smart J. Stanford Smith G. Curtis Stewart Paul Townsend Vernon Underwood Ted B. Westfall J. Howard Wood Sidney Woolwich Murray Zimmerman v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1969 Program Operating Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert S. Trippet E.M. Kunkel Thomas A. Landrith, Jr. Harry Heller William Blum Simpson Thacher and Bartlett William D. Lewis Richard A. Ganong Lewis & Ganong, a Partnership, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996

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