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ROYSDON v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

Civ. No. 3-84-606.

623 F.Supp. 1189 (1985)

Floyd F. ROYSDON, et al. v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, N.D.

December 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.D. Lee, Knoxville, Tenn., Janette Lay, Wilson & Lay, Oneida, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Robert R. Campbell, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, Tenn., Ray H. Moseley, and K. Stephen Powers, Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

HULL, District Judge.

This products liability action came to trial by jury on December 9, 1985. Plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Roysdon, claimed that Mr. Roysdon suffers severe peripheral vascular disease as a proximate result of many years of smoking cigarettes manufactured by the defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company [R.J. Reynolds]. The Roysdons made two claims: that the defendant's cigarettes are defective and unreasonably dangerous...

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