George Cornell v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co., Inc.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants seek reversal of a summary judgment entered against them on grounds that the statute of limitations for their products liability claims had run. The brunt of the appeal is that the court misconstrued or misapplied the Massachusetts “discovery rule.” Because we find that the court did neither, we affirm the judgment below.

Appellant George Cornell 1 worked as a spray painter. From 1980 to 1982 he used Imron polyurethane paint manufactured and sold by appellee E.I. Du Pont De Nem-ours & Co. (“Du Pont”). During the period of Cornell’s use of the…