Dorothy E. SMITH, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Julian Jackson Smith, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
SCHLAGE LOCK COMPANY, LLC, Defendant-Appellee, and
AMTETEK, Inc., sued individually and as successor-in-interest to Haveg Industries, Inc.; successor-in-interest to Hercules, Inc.; AstenJohnson, Inc., f/k/a The Asten Group; Bechtel Corporation; Caterpillar, INC.; CBS Corporation, f/k/a Viacom, Inc., sued as successor-by-merger to CBS Corporation f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation and as successor-in-interest to Haveg Industries, Inc.; Champion International Corporation; Champlain Cable Corporation, f/k/a Hercules, Inc., and as successor-in-interest to Haveg Industries, Inc.; Colgate-Palmolive Company; Cummins Power Generation, Inc., d/b/a Cummins Onan; Fisher Controls International, LLC; Flowserve Corporation, f/k/a The Duron Company, Inc., sued as successor-by-merger to Durco International and also sued as successor-in-interest to Anchor Darling Valves f/k/a Darling Manufacturing; Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation; General Electric Company; The Gorman-Rupp Company; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Grinnell, LLC, d/b/a Grinnell Corp.; Hercules, Inc.; Honeywell International, Inc., f/k/a Allied-Signal, Inc., sued as successor-in-interest to Bendix Corporation; International Paper Company; The Nash Engineering Company; Riley Power, Inc., f/k/a Riley Stoker Corporation, f/k/a D.B. Riley, Inc.; Sequoia Ventures, Inc., f/k/a Bechtel Corporation; Warren Pumps, LLC; Western Auto Supply, d/b/a Advance Auto Parts; Weyerhaeuser Company; The William Powell Company; Scott Co. of California; Tompkins-Beckwith, Inc.; International Business Machines Corporation, d/b/a IBM; Weatherly, Inc., sued as successor-in-interest to D.M. Weatherly; Farmers Chemical Association, Inc.; The Rust Engineering Company; Briggs & Stratton Corporation; Textron, Inc., d/b/a Lycoming Engines; Davis-Standard Corporation; Andritz, Inc., f/k/a Ahlstrom Machinery, Inc., f/k/a Kamyr, Inc.; DeZURIK, Inc., d/b/a Dezurik-Apco Williametter Eagle, Inc.; Certainteed Corporation, Defendants.
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Submitted: December 11, 2020.
Decided: January 27, 2021.