Thomas Aubrey MOORE, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORPORATION, et al., Defendants,
Standard Insulations, Inc., Armstrong World Industries, Inc., and Raymark Industries, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.
Jack Wendell ROBINSON, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP., et al., Defendants,
Standard Insulations, Inc., Armstrong World Industries, Inc., and Raymark Industries, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.
Glenn Ray LLOYD, et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP., et al., Defendants,
Standard Insulations, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 30, 1986.
January 30, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mehaffey, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin, Sandra F. Clark, Gene M. Williams, Beaumont, Tex., Boswell & Hallmark, John H. Boswell, A. David Carlson, Butler & Binion, Michael B. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., for Standard Insulations, Inc.
David L. Tolin, R. Lyn Stevens, Beaumont, Tex., for Fibreboard Corp.
Boswell & Hallmark, John H. Boswell, A. David Carlson, Houston, Tex., for Armstrong World.
Butler & Binion, Michael B. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., for Raymark Industries.
Gail C. Jenkins, Beaumont, Tex., Robert E. Ballard, Andrew T. McKinney, IV, Lawrence Madeksho, Baker & Botts, Arthur Stamm, Richard Josephson, Houston, Tex., for Celotex Corp.
Kronzer, Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Ballard & Friend, Robert E. Ballard, Houston, Tex., for Glenn Ray Lloyd.
Before THORNBERRY, RUBIN and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Texas apportions the damages recovered by a plaintiff in a product liability case among the defendants in accordance with "their relative roles in causing the injuries."1 We hold that, under the law of Texas applicable in this diversity case, the jury properly apportioned the liability among the defendant manufacturers of asbestos-containing products for causing personal injury to workers who handled their...
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