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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Morris grants in part summary judgment in favor of the estates which say that a railway company exposed the decedents to high levels of asbestos while they were transporting crushed vermiculite ore through their town. While the record needs to be fleshed out further to determine if the company's asbestos handling falls under the common carrier doctrine, the company is not allowed moving forward to argue that its handling "did not constitute an abnormally dangerous activity."
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