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IN RE ASBESTOSIS CASES

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274 S.C. 421 (1980)

266 S.E.2d 773

In re ASBESTOSIS CASES (34 cases) 78-CP-06-105.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Heyward Clarkson, III, and Daniel B. White of Rainey, Britton, Gibbes and Clarkson, Greenville, for appellant.

Terry E. Richardson, Jr., of Blatt and Fales, Barnwell for respondent.

William H. Horger, Orangeburg, Robert H. Hood, Edward D. Buckley, Robert A. Patterson, William H. Grimball, Bachman S. Smith, III, Henry B. Smythe, Jr., Michael T. Cole, and Joseph R. Young, Charleston, Robert R. Carpenter, Rock Hill, James W. Alford and F. Barron Grier, III, Columbia, and James B. Pressly, Jr., Greenville, for defendants.

March 26, 1980.

RHODES, Justice:

This is an appeal from a denial of a change of venue motion in the consolidated asbestosis cases1 in Barnwell County, in which appellant Covil Corporation (Covil) is a party defendant in a number of cases. We reverse.

These product liability suits allege that respondents, as industrial insulators, were exposed during their year of employment to asbestos insulation materials manufactured...

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