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1 asbestosis. What does that got to do with
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2 mesothelioma?
3 The Judge will talk to you about that in
4 closing. He will talk to you about that in closing,
5 but the evidence will show that you don't have to know
6 the specific harm that you are causing. You just have
7 to know that you could cause a harm. That creates a
8 duty.
9 Asbestosis by the 1930s is a known link to
10 asbestos and is a potentially fatal disease.
11 In 1930 a man named Merewether, over in
12 England, it is over in England, but it was known and
13 published here in the U.S, or available -- a
14 researcher over in England had studied asbestos
15 workers and found asbestosis in one out of four.
16 1930, ladies and gentlemen. We are 27 years
17 before Mr. Grewe steps foot in Foreign Motors. We are
18 20 years before Mr. Vandergucht breaths the first dust
19 of Kaylo. 1930.
20 The term asbestosis was first coined by a
21 researcher named Cooke in 1927, and it was published