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GARY AUSTIN 1 APPEARANCES: 2 FOR THE PLAINTIFFS: WATERS & KRAUS, LLP 3 CHARLES VALLAS appeared telephonically 3219 McKinney Avenue, Suite 3000 4 Dallas, Texas 75203 S FOR THE DEFENDANT DANA CELBA & DES ROCHERS. LLP 6 STEVEN W. CELBA 4493 North Prospect Avenue 7 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 $ FOR THE DEFENDANT CERTAINTEED DEHAY & ELLISTON 9 TINA STAMPS appeared telephonically 901 Main Street, Suite 3500 10 Dallas, Texas 75202 11 FOR THE DEFENDANT PACCAR WHITTENBURG, WHITTENBURG, SCHACHTER & HARRIS 12 LAURIE FAY appeared telephonically 600 North Pearl, Suite 2300 13 Dallas, Texas 7S201 14 FOR THE DEFENDANT BORG WARNER VIAL, HAMILTON, KOCK & KNOX IS KEENAN CARTER appeared telephonically 1717 Main Street, Suite 4400 16 Dallas, Texas 75201 17 FOR THE DEFENDANT AMERICAN OIL COMPANY ANDREWS & KURTH 18 JOSEPH BUZZARD appeared telephonically 1717 Main Street, Suite 3700 19 Dallas, Texas 75201 20 FOR THE DEFENDANT GARLOCK SEGAL MCCAMBRIDGE 21 VICTORIA OTT appeared telephonically 100 Congress, Suite 700 22 Austin, Texas 78701 23 FOR THE DEFENDANT UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION THOMPSON & KNIGHT 24 PETE VERMILLION appeared tdepbonically STEVE VICTOR 25 1700 Pacific, Suite 3300 Dallas, Texas 75201 1 FOR THE DEFENDANT GUARD UNE DOGAN & WILKINSON 2 CATHY PARKO appeared telephonically 734 Debras Avenue 3 Pascagoula, Mississippi 39568 4 FOR THE DEFENDANT FORD MOTOR COMPANY BROWN MCCARROLL 5 ARTHUR GRIMALDO appeared telephonically,, 2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 2000 6 Dallas, Texas 75201 7 FOR THE DEFENDANT DAIMLER-CHRYSLER HAWKINS, PARNELL & THACKSTON 8 EDWARD SLAUGHTER appeared telepbonically 4514 Cole Avenue 9 Dallas, Texas 75205 10 FOR THE DEFENDANT INTERNATIONAL TRUCK & ENGINE CORPORATION 11 ORGAIN, BELL & TUCKER, LLP GREG C WILKINS appeared telephonically 12 P.O.BOX 1751 Beaumont, Texas 77704-1751 13 GODWIN GRUBER 14 MICHAEL JUSTUS appeared telephonically 1201 Elm Street, Suite 1700 15 Dallas, Texas 75270 16 ALSO PRESENT: MR GARY AUSTIN, . 17 The Witness; and. MS. SHEILA FAIRCHILD, 18 The Court Reporter. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 2 INDEX PAGE Appearances...................................... 2 WITNESS: GARY AUSTIN Direct Examination by Mr. Valias................. 5 Cross-Examination by Mr. Celba................... 86 Direct Examination by Mr. Carter..................88 Recross-Exairrination by Mr. Celba.................. 90 Redirect Examination by Mr. Valias................ 90 Recross-Examination by Mr. Celba.................. 94 Redirect Examination by Mr. Valias................ 95 EXHIBITS No. Description Page 1 Notice of Deposition 2 1-8-85 Letter 3 12-12-84 Letter 4 8-23-85 Letter 9 8 10 14 Page 4 Page 3 Page 5 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 GARY AUSTIN, called as a witness herein, 3 having been first duly sworn on oath, was examined 4 and testified as follows: 5 EXAMINATION 6 BY MR VALLAS: 7 Q Good morning, Mr. Austin. 8 A Good morning. 9 Q This is Charles Valias, of course, with Waters & 10 Kraus, rve had the opportunity to take your 11 deposition, I think this is the third time, the last 12 time being as recently as last week or the week 13 before in the Gerald Pyle case. It's my 14 understanding that you are appearing this morning on 15 behalf of the Dana Corporation in both the 16 Christopher Stoeckler case and the George Mathias 17 case. Is that your understanding? 18 A Yes, it is. 19 Q Here's what I'm going to try to do this morning, I'm 20 not going to try to be extremely repetitive of the 21 questions that I asked you in the Gerald Pyle case. 22 I'm going to try to cover some different kind of 23 territory with you here this morning, although I 24 guess there's going to be some overlap to some 25 extent. Let's do this though, before we get started. Henjum Goucher Reporting Services 1-888-656-DEPO 2 (Pages 2 to 5)