West v. Allied Signal, Inc.

Plaintiff, the personal representative of the Estate of Wendell West, appeals, challenging the allowance of summary judgment in favor of defendant La Grand Industrial Supply Co. on claims arising out of the decedent’s alleged exposure to asbestos while working at a foundry in the early 1960s. The trial court concluded that plaintiff had failed to present sufficient evidence to permit a reasonable trier of fact to find that defendant had, in fact, supplied to the foundry asbestos gloves that decedent or his coworkers wore, causing decedent to be injuriously exposed to asbestos fibers. We…