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COLON v. CELOTEX CORP.

No. 84-507.

465 So.2d 1332 (1985)

Louis Key COLON and Jeannette M. Colon, Appellants, v. The CELOTEX CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Fibreboard Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baron & Associates and Jane N. Saginaw, Dallas, Tex., Louis S. Robles and Janice Robinson, Miami, for appellants.

Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans and Charles P. Schropp and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr., Tampa, for The Celotex Corp., appellee.

Lyle & Skipper and C. Bryant Boydstun, Jr., St. Petersburg, for Fibreboard Corp., appellee.

Before NESBITT, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

FERGUSON, Judge.

Plaintiff, Louis Colon, appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendants on a finding that Colon's claim is barred by the Tennessee one-year statute of limitations.

For twenty-three years, Colon was employed in Florida as an installer and dismantler of asbestos products manufactured, distributed, and sold by the defendants. On June 25, 1979, he visited a doctor in Tennessee who diagnosed his bronchial problem as asbestosis. Plaintiff...

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