Gideon v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1985-06-03

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: This suit for personal injuries allegedly caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers is one of 25,000 1 pending in federal and state courts. After a ten-day trial, the jury returned a verdict against seven of the seventeen defendants originally named and fixed the compensatory damages at $500,-100. The judge reduced the amount of the judgment to reflect the effect…

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