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1 to warn of dangerous defects after the product has
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2 been sold.
3 So even though Ford may have manufactured
4 trucks in the case of Mr. Wood's case in 1930, they
5 had a duty to warn in 1930, and that duty continued
6 into the 1940s to the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s; and
7 we read you their interrogatory answers, and they
8 warned when? 1980.
9 Let's talk a little bit about Mr. Wood's
10 exposure.
11 As I said to you, Mr. Wood started working
12 at the post office garage on Preston Street 18 years
13 after the first study by Dr. Merewether linking
14 asbestosis to exposure to asbestos, and we heard his
15 two witnesses testify, Mr. Butler who was a garage
16 man, had the same position as Mr. Wood, and also Mr.
17 Carter who worked in the garage there with him, tell
18 you this was a huge facility, a one square block
19 radius and within that garage, it was basically a
20 three-hour shift -- excuse me, not a three-hour shift,
21 but three shifts around the clock garage, workers