Once-Homeless Plaintiff with Silicosis Appeals Summary Judgment Ruling, Claims He Wasn't Previously Informed of Diagnosis

HOUSTON - Argument is set for later this month in the appeal of a Texas judge's decision to award summary judgment to two sand suppliers after they claimed the once-homeless plaintiff, who sued them after he was diagnosed with silicosis in 1998, had been informed years earlier that he suffered from the disease. Dixon v. E.D. Bullard Company, et al., No. 14-02-00638 (Texas Ct. App., 14th Dist.).

Briefing is complete in the appeal filed in the Fourteenth District Court of Appeals by plaintiff Roger Dixon, who contends that a genuine issue of material fact exists surrounding the question of whether …