Ragin v. Porter Hayden Co.

HOLLANDER, Judge.

This case is a by-product of the consolidated asbestos trials conducted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. We are called upon here to consider the scope of a stipulation as to liability executed in connection with a consolidated asbestos ease, and to construe a jury verdict in a case that was previously considered by the Court of Appeals in 1995. 1

Joyce Ragin, appellant, is the daughter of the late Flemmie Pettiford and personal representative of his estate. In 1990, appellant initiated a wrongful death and survival action in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against…