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ROWAN COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. U.S. GYPSUM CO.,

No. 9019SC663.

407 S.E.2d 860 (1991)

103 N.C. App. 288

The ROWAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a Public Body Politic, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 2, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole by Edward J. Westbrook, Charleston and Woodson, Linn, Sayers, Lawther, Short & Wagoner by Donald D. Sayers, Salisbury, for plaintiff-appellee.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius by Peter J. Lynch and Rebecca J. Slaughter, Philadelphia, Pa. and Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman by William C. Livingston and Raymond E. Owens, Jr., Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.

COZORT, Judge.

On 30 July 1985, plaintiff Rowan County Board of Education (Rowan) brought suit against defendant United States Gypsum Company (Gypsum). Rowan sought compensatory and punitive damages related to the removal from various schools of acoustical ceiling plaster containing asbestos. After a three-week trial the jury awarded Rowan $812,984.21 in compensatory damages and $1,000,000.00 in punitive damages, and the court entered judgment in those amounts. From...

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