Sutherland v. Alma Plantation, L.L.C.

TERRI F.«LOVE, Judge.

11 This appeal arises from the death of plaintiffs’ mother from mesothelioma. Decedent alleged that she was exposed to asbestos when she laundered her first husband’s work clothes and while cleaning their home. The sugar mill where decedent’s first husband worked part-time filed a motion for partial summary judgment contending that there was no foreseeable duty to protect the decedent, as a wife of a part-time electrician’s helper working as an independent contractor in the mill. The trial court granted the summary judgment finding that the plaintiffs would be the more…