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SMITH v. UNION CARBIDE CORP.

NO. 2014-CA-01371-SCT.

200 So.3d 1035 (2016)

Elsie SMITH, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Larry D. Smith, Deceased: Amy Smith Rhodes, Ouida Smith Dawkins, Larry Clint Smith and Bonnie Smith Witty v. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION f/k/a Union Carbide Plastics & Chemicals Company, Inc., Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, Successor-In-Interest to Conoco Phillips Company f/k/a Phillips Petroleum Company, and Phillips 66 Company Formerly d/b/a Drilling Specialties Company a/k/a Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP and Montello, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 22, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

GREGORY N. JONES , S. ROBERT HAMMOND, JR. , EUGENE C. TULLOS , E. HYDE CARBY , FOR APPELLANTS.

LAURA D. GOODSON , MARCY B. CROFT , JULIE E. CHAFFIN , ELIZABETH TURLEY , J. JEFFREY TROTTER , LINDSEY O. WATSON , ALEX E. COSCULLUELA , A. CHRISTOPHER DERDEN , HOLMES S. ADAMS , FOR APPELLEES.

BEFORE WALLER, C.J., LAMAR AND KITCHENS, JJ.

¶ 1. This is Elsie Smith's second appeal to this Court. A jury awarded her more than three million dollars in damages after an asbestos trial in 2009, but the trial judge granted the defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict ("JNOV"). Elsie appealed...

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