Sales v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

¶1 Charles Sales’s father worked with asbestos-containing materials at a Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Arkansas during Sales’s childhood. After doctors diagnosed Sales, an Arkansas resident, with mesothelioma, he filed a personal injury action in Pierce County, Washington against Weyerhaeuser, alleging that his father brought home asbestos dust on his clothing that exposed Sales to the asbestos and caused him to develop mesothelioma. On Weyerhaeuser’s motion to dismiss for an inconvenient forum, the trial court dismissed this action, ruling that Sales should have filed the action in Arkansas.…