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Court papers, 14 pages, in George Ruskell's suit against Johns-Manville Products Company and Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County and moved to the federal court in Chicago. Ruskell said he worked two and a half years as a laborer at the Waukegan factory, shoveling and mixing rubber, asphalt, silica, ground wood fibre and coloring matter, that he was never told of the danger, and that he contracted silicosis; he asked $50,000. The papers include separate answers by the two J-M companies denying the claims and raising the Occupational Diseases Act.
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- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Series
- The Motley 1000
- Date
- March 14, 1934
- Numbers
- Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002508 – 002521; Motley 1000 no. 698
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 13153 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13153
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:
Various pleadings filed in George Ruskell v. J-M Products Corp and J-M Sales Corp. Complaint was filed on 3/14/34 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Case was removed to the U.S.D.C., Illinois. Ruskell was a laborer at J-M's Waukegan plant for approximately 3 years.
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This is document 698 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002508 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002521.
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“Ruskell v. Johns-Manville Products and Sales Corporations, Complaint and Answers.” March 14, 1934. The Motley 1000, Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002508 – 002521, Motley 1000 no. 698. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13153. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13153.
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