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OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. v. EDWARDS

No. 90-IA-0370.

573 So.2d 704 (1990)

OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC.; Pittsburgh Corning Corp.; Hopeman Brothers, Inc.; Manville Corp. Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. and Dmn Electric Supply Co., Inc. v. Charles Gavin EDWARDS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Forman, Walter G. Watkins, Jr., Ronald D. Collins, Ferrell Tadlock, Fred Krutz, III, Forman Perry Watkins & Krutz, Peter L. Corson, Suzanne N. Saunders, David J. Slaughter, Saunders Abel & Fortenberry, Thomas W. Tardy, III, Julie E. Chaffin, Patrick D. McMurtray, Cynthia M. Sarthou, Thomas Price Alston Jones & Davis, Jackson, Robert W. Wilkinson, Brown & Associates, Pascagoula, Douglas R. Duke, Shell Buford Bufkin Callicutt & Perry, Jackson, Richard M. Crump, Paul B. Shaw, Jr., Jim Crosby, Crosby Saad & Beebe, Mobile, Ala., for appellant.

Richard F. Scruggs, W. Steve Bozeman, Alwyn H. Luckey, Donald W. Cumbest, David O. McCormick, Cumbest Cumbest Hunter & McCormick, Pascagoula, Wm. Roberts Wilson, Jr., Mitchell H. Tyner, Wm. Roberts Wilson, Jr., P.A., Jackson, for appellee.

Christy D. Jones, Thomas E. Williams, J. Stevenson Ray, Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Fred C. DeLong, Jr., Campbell DeLong Hagwood Wade & Stuart, Greenville, Crymes G. Pittman, Cothern & Pittman, John G. Jones, Danny Cupit, Cupit Jones & Fairbank, Jackson, James N. Compton, Compton Crowell & Hewitt, Biloxi, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.

PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

This interlocutory appeal is from the Jackson County Circuit Court's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of Charles Edwards, and against Owens-Illinois and the other defendant/appellants. The issue presented is whether Edwards' claim is time barred under Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49 (1972), or whether a "discovery" rule exists which is applicable in a products liability and negligence action involving latent diseases. The...

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