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Civil Procedure Keyed to Subrin
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
Citation:
681 F.2d 334 (5th Cir. 1982)Facts
Plaintiffs were exposed to asbestos and brought suit against Defendants. The district court entered a collateral estoppel order, finding that some issues in Plaintiffs’ case had been decided in Plaintiffs’ favor by a separate judgment for unrelated plaintiffs in a different asbestos case, Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. (1973). Borel, the plaintiff in that case, was an insulation worker who had been exposed to insulation products from 1936 to 1969. The jury in Borel found that Borel would have avoided the danger of asbestos in the insulation if proper warning had been given. Borel found that no one in the insulation industry had provided warnings prior to 1964; that Johns-Manville started to place warnings on its products in 1964; and that Fibreboard started to place warnings on its products in 1966. Defendants appealed, arguing that Borel did not necessarily decide that asbestos-containing insulation products were unreasonably dangerous because of the failure to warn. The special interrogatories answered by the Borel jury were general and not specifically directed toward the failure to warn.
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