· 1/9/1956
O'Brien v. Hurley
Citations
- 350 U.S. 940
How courts have described this case
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- holding that district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding documents gathered by Sumner Simpson, a former president of Raybestos Manhattan (now Raymark)
- holding that district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding documents gathered by Sumner Simpson, a former president of Raybestos Manhattan (now Raymark)
- holding that invoice evidence, standing alone, was not sufficient to establish that a particular product was a substantial con- tributing factor where invoices showed only the purchase of asbestos- containing product, but not when or where the product was used
- finding insufficient exposure to asbestos dust from a pipe covering product on ten to fifteen occasions of between one and eight hours of duration
- “in Maryland, state of the art can be considered in a strict liability tort case where the claimed defect is a failure to warn”
- exposure to asbestos-containing pipe covering on ten to fifteen occasions of between one and eight hours duration insufficient to satisfy frequency-regularity-proximity test
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