COLE v. CELOTEX CORP.

No. 93-C-0090.

620 So.2d 1154 (1993)

Outher COLE, et al. v. CELOTEX CORPORATION, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Baggett, Jr., William B. Baggett, Lake Charles, for applicant.

William C. Harrison, Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., Arthur W. Stout, III, Janet L. MacDonell, Kelvin G. Sanders, Gary B. Roth, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Lawrence G. Pugh, Jr., Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, & Read, New Orleans, David L. Tolin, Beaumont, TX, Christopher P. Ieyoub, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, Richard L. Forman, Forman & Perry, Jackson, MS, Michael T. Cali, Lemle & Kelleher, Edwin A. Ellinghausen, III, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, Russell D. Holwadel, Adams & Johnston, New Orleans, William T. McCall, Guillory & McCall, Lake Charles, James L. Pate, Ben L. Mayeaux, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, Stephen P. Hall, Phelps Dunbar, J. Michael Johnson, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr, New Orleans, Kenneth R. Spears, Jones, Tete, Nolen, Hanchey, Swift & Spears, Lake Charles, for respondent.


MARCUS, Justice.*

Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn L. Robertson and others filed suit on December 22, 1987, against several manufacturers of asbestoscontaining products and the executive officers of their employer, Cities Service Oil Company (Cities Service).1 Plaintiffs alleged that they had been diagnosed with asbestosis as a result of their occupational exposure to asbestos-containing products in the course of their...

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