[DOWNLOAD] "Howard B. Money v. Manville Corporation" by Supreme Court of Delaware # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Howard B. Money v. Manville Corporation
- Author : Supreme Court of Delaware
- Release Date : January 07, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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This is an appeal from a Superior Court order granting the defendant-appellees' motion for a directed verdict. The plaintiff-appellants
are Howard B. Money, Jr., Foster D. Trader, Charles Perrin, Joseph H. Merkel, Sr., and Clifton C. Piddle (collectively the
"plaintiffs"). Each of them filed a law suit in the Superior Court against numerous entities, including inter alia the defendant-appellees,
Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Trust Fund and Celotex Corporation 1 (collectively the "defendants").
Each action alleged that exposure to the asbestos products of the defendants had caused the plaintiffs' asbestos-related physical
injuries. After extensive discovery and pretrial proceedings, the separate actions were consolidated for a trial commencing on April
10, 1990. 2 The plaintiffs presented two types of evidence: first, that each plaintiff had a disease related to asbestos
exposure; and second, that the defendants were the manufacturers of various asbestos products which each plaintiff had used
during the course of their employment. After the close of the plaintiffs' evidence, the defendants moved for a directed verdict,
contending that the plaintiffs had failed to present a prima facie case on the issue of causation.