Legal Opinion
In Re Shell Oil Co.
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Decided January 22, 2004No. 09-03-325-CVPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STEVE McKEITHEN, Chief Justice.
In this original proceeding, the relators, Shell Oil Company, Pennzoil-Quaker State Company, and Delta Distributors, Inc. fik/a or d/b/a Delta Solvent, petition for a writ of mandamus to transfer venue of a suit from Jefferson County to Harris County. We conditionally grant relief.
The original petition filed by William L. Simpson and Eva Simpson in Orange County in July 1999, alleged that William Simpson developed chronic lymphocytic leukemia as the result of occupational exposure to benzene placed into the stream of commerce by the defendants. Shell Oil…
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