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· 9/17/1990

Kershaw County Board of Education v. United States Gypsum Co.

Citations

  • 396 S.E.2d 369
  • 302 S.C. 390
  • 1990 S.C. LEXIS 186

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding school to be other property so as to allow recovery for costs of asbestos abatement
  • holding school to be other property so as to allow recovery for costs of asbestos abatement
  • holding \the procedure followed by the trial court in this case\—giving an adverse inference jury instruction on the destruction of evidence—\was appropriate\
  • stating that when one party alleges another party has destroyed evidence, a trial court has the discretion to decide the type of sanction to impose
  • admitting DHEC asbestos regulations into evidence because, in part, the regulations were not admitted to establish liability
  • expressing approval of the trial court's use of a spoliation charge, even in the absence of evidence of intentional misconduct

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Judges: Harwell, Gregory, Chandler, Finney, Toal

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