Fran Swaney to Pam Johnson on J-M Customer Numbers for Texas Contractors and Plants, with Brown & Root Sales Printouts (1982)

A one-page Johns-Manville internal memo of August 10, 1982, from Fran Swaney to Pam Johnson in the case of Marie Alford v. J-M, asking for J-M customer numbers for thirteen Texas companies: insulation contractors in Houston, Odessa, Corpus Christi and San Antonio (Precision Insulation, Star Insulation, Thorpe Insulation, Solar Insulation, H. B. Zachry and others), Brown & Root of Houston, and the Union Carbide plant at Seadrift, the Celanese plant at Bishop and the Du Pont plant at Victoria. Handwritten answers give numbers for five companies and "None" for the rest, including all three plants. Five pages of computer printouts dated August 16, 1982, follow, listing J-M's sales to Brown & Root for 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1981.

What it shows

The Brown & Root printouts are small: a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a year, for products including Transite pipe and asbestos-cement soil pipe fittings, asbestos tape and tubing, gaskets, Permastran pipe and fiber glass batts. The memo shows how J-M's legal staff traced sales to particular customers for a lawsuit; it does not show what products went to the contractors whose numbers were found.