Nichols Ex Rel. Kauk v. Mid-Continent Pipe Line Co.

OP ALA, Justice.

The issues presented on certiorari are: (1) Are the plaintiffs within the class of claim ants who may maintain a common-law action to recover on a nuisance theory? (2) Was it an abuse of discretion for the trial court to admit evidence about the plaintiffs medical condition? (3) Was it reversible error to admit, during the punitive-damages stage of the trial, evidence of the financial condition of a defendant’s (Mid-Continent Pipeline Company’s [Mid-Continent]) parent corporation? (4) Was the trial court’s refusal to declare a mistrial for intemperate remarks by plaintiffs’…