Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a “tireworker” asbestos case arising under the district court’s diversity jurisdiction. Ten former employees of the Mohawk Tire and Rubber Company plant in West Helena, Arkansas, (“Mohawk”) filed suit against numerous manufacturers of asbestos-containing products.1 After considerable discovery, the district court2 granted the defen*1299dants’ motions for summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to produce sufficient evidence that exposure to the defendants’ products had proximately caused the plaintiffs’ injuries, an essential element of their…