SOUTHERN STATES CHEMICAL, INC. v. TAMPA TANK AND WELDING, INC

316 Ga. 701

FINAL COPY S23A0273. SOUTHERN STATES CHEMICAL, INC. et al. v. TAMPA TANK & WELDING, INC. et al. MCMILLIAN, Justice. In 2012, Southern States Chemical, Inc. and Southern States Phosphate and Fertilizer Company (collectively, “Southern States”) sued Tampa Tank & Welding, Inc. (“Tampa Tank”) and Corrosion Control, Inc. (“CCI”), claiming damages from a faulty, leaky storage tank that Tampa Tank had installed in 2002. After a decade of litigation and multiple appeals, the trial court dismissed Southern States’s claims with prejudice, concluding that the claims were barred by the…