DEPENDABLE ABRASIVES, INC. v. PIERCE

No. 2013-IA-01162-SCT.

156 So.3d 891 (2015)

DEPENDABLE ABRASIVES, INC. v. Richard PIERCE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas W. McCharen , B. Stevens Hazard , Sandra Denise Buchanan , Jackson, Matthew Toxey Vitart , Ridgeland, Eugene M. Harlow , Laurel, attorneys for appellant.

David Neil McCarty , Robert Allen Smith, Jr. , Timothy W. Porter , Patrick C. Malouf , Ridgeland, John Timothy Givens , Jackson, attorneys for appellee.

Before WALLER, C.J., KITCHENS and COLEMAN, JJ.


¶ 1. Richard Pierce has a debilitating and deadly disease known as silicosis. Having worked for many years as a sandblaster, preparing surfaces for painting, Pierce sued, among multiple defendants, sellers of sand including Dependable Abrasives, alleging that Dependable's failure to provide adequate warnings...

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