Decedent, a lifelong smoker, was employed as a roofer from 1950 to 1953, and as a metal lather from 1959 through 1987. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in July of 1992, which he alleges resulted from smoking and his exposure to asbestos. This products liability action was brought against various manufacturers of asbestos fibers. Plaintiff died on December 26, 1993, before W.R. Grace filed the motion for summary judgment at issue on appeal. In his answer to defendant's interrogatories...
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