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WILKINS v. WEST POINT-PEPPERELL, INC.

79-807.

397 So.2d 115 (1981)

Nat WILKINS, individually and as representative of the class v. WEST POINT-PEPPERELL, INC. et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira A. Burnim and Dennis N. Balske, Montgomery, for appellants.

Warren Lightfoot and Douglas Arant, Scott M. Phelps, and James Walker May, of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, E. Mabry Rogers and William F. Horsley of Samford, Denson, Horsley, Pettey & Martin, Opelika, Bibb Allen, Birmingham, C. Powers Dorsett, Associate Gen. Counsel & Asst. Secretary, West Point, Ga., for West Point-Pepperell, Inc.

JONES, Justice.

On October 19, 1979, within one year of the last date of his employment, Nat Wilkins instituted this action against his former employer, West Point-Pepperell, Inc., and numerous co-employee defendants, seeking to recover for personal injuries associated with byssinosis.1 Wilkins seeks compensatory and punitive damages for "three separate and distinct injuries": 1) initial contraction of byssinosis; 2) aggravation of his...

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