Elsie Smith v. Union Carbide Corporation

LAMAR, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. This is Elsie Smith’s second appeal to this Court. A jury awarded her more than three million dollars in damages after an asbestos trial in 2009, but the trial judge granted the defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (“JNOV”). Elsie appealed, and this Court reversed and remanded for further proceedings. Following remand, the trial judge again entered a JNOV, and Elsie now appeals that ruling. We reverse and remand.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

• -¶2. Larry Smith worked on various drilling rigs from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s. Smith…