· 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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