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NOBRIGA v. RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC.

No. 9173.

683 P.2d 389 (1984)

Philomena NOBRIGA, individually and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Tristan Nobriga, deceased, Tristan Nobriga, Jr., Thelma Sharum, Beverly Miller, Marietta Gouveia, Audrey Nobriga and John Nobriga, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., a Connecticut corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., an Ohio corporation, Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, and Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, formerly known as Johns-Manville Products Corporation, a Delaware corporation; also formerly known as Johns-Manville Corporation, a New York corporation, et al., Defendants. In re Asbestos Cases: A.C.M. GALIHER I — Civil No. 55624.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

May 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary O. Galiher, Honolulu (Stanford H. Masui and L. Richard DeRobertis, Honolulu, with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellants Nobriga.

Brian K. Yomono, Honolulu (Michael F. O'Connor, Honolulu, with him on the briefs, Ezra, O'Connor & Moon, Honolulu, of counsel); and William J. Spriggs, Washington, D.C. (Joe G. Hollingsworth and Donald W. Fowler, Washington, D.C., Spriggs, Bode & Hollingsworth, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee Eagle-Picher Industries.

Paula Devens, Honolulu (Paul Devens, Honolulu, with her on the brief, Ikazaki, Devens, Lo, Youth & Nakano, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Raymark Industries, successor to Raybestos-Manhattan.

William S. Hunt and Lawrence C. Foster, Honolulu, on the brief, Paul, Johnson & Alston, Honolulu, of counsel, and Jeffrey Silberfeld, Garden City, N.Y. (Rivkin, Leff, Sherman & Radler, Garden City, N.Y., of counsel), amicus curiae for Pittsburgh Corning.

PADGETT, Judge.

This case involves an appeal and a cross-appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs-appellants and against defendants-appellees Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. and Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. Plaintiffs-appellants claim that the court below erred in the judgment in determining the amount of damages against the two appellees. Appellee/cross-appellant Eagle Picher Industries, Inc. cross-appeals, contending...

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