Julian P. Wammock v. Celotex Corporation, National Gypsum Company

MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The primary issue in this case concerns the applicability under Georgia law of punitive damages in an asbestos case where there is the possibility of multiple awards of punitive damages against the same company. Appellant/defendant National Gypsum manufactured a joint compound, used to cover seams between sheets of wallboard, that contained asbestos. Appellee/plaintiff Julian P. Wammock, a carpenter, was exposed to asbestos through the use of National Gypsum’s joint compound. After Wammock was diagnosed in 1981 as having asbestosis, Wammock sued National Gypsum…