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Court papers, 12 pages, in Charles Sarounas's suit against Johns-Manville Corporation, filed in the Superior Court of Cook County and moved to the federal court in Chicago. The papers are J-M's answer, which denied the claims and argued that any claim belonged under the Illinois Occupational Diseases Act, and an amended complaint by his lawyer, Sol Andrews, charging that J-M failed to provide suction fans, masks or warnings and violated Illinois factory safety laws. He asked $50,000.
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- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Series
- The Motley 1000
- Date
- 1934
- Numbers
- Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002496 – 002507; Motley 1000 no. 699
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 13161 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13161
- 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 Charles Sarounas v. J-M Corp. Complaint was filed in 1934 in the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois. Case was removed to the U.S.D.C., Illinois. Sarounas worked in the tiling room near the asbestos mixing operation at J-M's Waukegan plant for an unknown period of time.
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This is document 699 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-002496 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002507.
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“Sarounas v. Johns-Manville Corporation, Answer and Amended Complaint.” 1934. The Motley 1000, Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002496 – 002507, Motley 1000 no. 699. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13161. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13161.
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