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CELOTEX CORP. v. TATE

No. 13-89-444-CV.

797 S.W.2d 197 (1990)

CELOTEX CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Shirley TATE, Individually, as Executrix of the Estate of James Fisk Tate, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled September 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Arredondo, Donald Verplancken, Thomas W. Taylor, Elizabeth M. Thompson and Randa L. Duncan, Butler & Binion, Houston, for appellant.

B. Mills Latham, Law Offices of B. Mills Latham, Corpus Christi, Stanley R. Watson, Law Offices of Stanley R. Watson, P.C., Quanah, W. James Kronzer, Houston, for appellees.

Before NYE, C.J., and KEYS and BENAVIDES, JJ.

OPINION

KEYS, Justice.

Appeal is taken from the jury trial of a toxic tort case. Appellees, the heirs of James Tate's estate, brought suit against defendants Union Carbide, George Rowley, Inc., Celotex Corp. and others. Appellees alleged that each of the defendants sold or supplied raw asbestos to Tate's employer and that the defendants' failure to warn of the dangers involved in handling asbestos resulted in Tate's unsafe exposure, proximately causing his...

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