California Court of Appeal

In a negligence action brought by a plaintiff diagnosed with asbestosis after a decades-long career working for the Southern California Gas Company who helped build and replace gas pipelines covered in a coating that contained asbestos, the trial court's defense judgment is affirmed over plaintiff's claims that the court erred by: 1) excluding two exhibits containing SoCalGas specifications for contractors; 2) allowing the president of Hood to use a contract from an irrelevant time period to refresh his recollection about the content of earlier contracts; and 3) giving the jury two erroneous instructions:

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/11/22

Judges

• COLLINS

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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