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CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-2864.

683 F.Supp. 1487 (1988)

Antonio CIPOLLONE, individually and as executor of the estate of Rose D. Cipollone, Plaintiff, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., Philip Morris Incorporated, and Lorillard, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

April 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Budd Larner Gross Picillo Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade, Marc Z. Edell, Short Hills, N.J., Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Alan M. Darnell, Woodbridge, N.J., for plaintiff.

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Bergstein, Alan S. Naar, Woodbridge, N.J., for defendant Liggett Group, Inc.

Brown & Connery, Raymond F. Drozdowski, Westmont, N.J., for defendant Philip Morris Inc.

Stryker, Tams & Dill, William S. Tucker, Newark, N.J., for defendant Lorillard, Inc.

OPINION

SAROKIN, District Judge.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND1

The court will make no attempt to outline all of the evidence which has been submitted in this case, but concludes for the purposes of the pending motions that the jury could reasonably infer and find as follows:

Rose DeFrancesco Cipollone was born in 1925 and began to smoke at age 16, in the year 1942, while she was still in high school. She testified that...

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