Legal Opinion
W.R. Grace & Co. v. CSR Ltd.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided April 3, 1996No. 3-95-0176PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McCUSKEY
John Ensey, Jr., died of mesothelioma on November 26, 1992. John’s wife, Helen Ensey (Ensey), as administrator of his estate, filed her fifth amended complaint on October 15, 1993. Ensey alleges that the defendant, CSR Limited (CSR), a corporation headquartered in Australia and organized under the laws of Australia, sold asbestos to Johns-Manville Corporation (Manville), which incorporated it into transite pipe and transite sheets at its plants throughout the United States, including a plant in Waukegan, Illinois.
John was employed on several jobsites in central Illinois where he worked with…
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