Legal Opinion
In Re Ethyl Corp.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 14, 1998No. 96-0931PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, Justice
in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, ENOCH, SPECTOR, BAKER, ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, joined.
In this original proceeding, we are called upon to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion by grouping for trial the premises liability claims of twenty-two workers or their family members against five defendants for deaths or injuries allegedly caused by exposure to asbestos. Because the record is silent with regard to many factors that would inform our decision on the commonality or conversely the dissimilarity of these claims, the relators have not demonstrated that the trial…
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