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IN RE ASBESTOS LITIGATION

No. 238, 1995.

673 A.2d 159 (1996)

In re ASBESTOS LITIGATION. Marvin E. COLLINS and Freida M. Collins, his wife, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION; Abex Corporation; A.C. & S. Co., Inc., a/k/a ACandS, Inc., formerly known as Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corp.; E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Inc.; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Rapid-American Corporation, Successor-in-Interest to the Philip Carey Corporation and Carey Canadian Mines, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: March 26, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Crumplar (argued), and Mary Ann Matuszewski, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, for appellants.

C. Scott Reese, Cooch and Taylor, Wilmington, and Frank H. Santoro (argued), and Gerald A. DeSimone, Danaher, Tedford, Lagnese & Neal, P.C., Hartford, Connecticut, for appellee Pittsburgh Corning Corporation.

Andrew G. Ahern, III and Kelly J. Sasso, Joseph W. Benson, P.A., Delaware, for appellee, Abex Corporation.

Paul A. Bradley, McCarter & English, Wilmington, for appellees ACandS, Inc. and Owens-Illinois, Inc.

John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips, Goldman & Spence, P.A., Wilmington, for appellee E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company.

Armand J. Della Porta, Jr., Kelley, Jasons, Maguire & Spinelli, Wilmington, for appellee Owens Corning Fiberglas Corporation.

William F. Taylor, Jr., Elzufon & Austin, Wilmington, for appellee, Rapid American Corporation.

Before WALSH, HOLLAND, and BERGER, JJ.

WALSH, Justice:

In this appeal from the Superior Court, the plaintiff-appellant, Marvin Collins ("Collins"), asserts error in the Superior Court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants-appellees on the basis that the statute of limitations bars Collins' claim for damages resulting from asbestos exposure. The trial court ruled that Collins' long-held belief that he had incurred an asbestos related ailment was...

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