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AUSTIN v. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 87-1546.

841 F.2d 1184 (1988)

Margaret AUSTIN, etc., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. William Higbee with whom McTeague, Higbee, Libner, Reitman, MacAdam & Case, Topsham, Me., and David Gregory, Alfred, Me., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Mark G. Furey with whom Thomas R. McNaboe, Edward S. MacColl and Thompson, McNaboe, Ashley & Bull, Portland, Me., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Blaine Austin, the husband of plaintiff-appellant Margaret Austin, died on October 13, 1977, from asbestos-induced cancer of the lung lining. The plaintiff brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Maine against sixteen suppliers of asbestos products to Bath Iron Works, a shipbuilder, where her husband had worked from 1952 through 1976. During the course of the proceedings, the plaintiff entered into settlement agreements...

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