Widow suing cigarette maker in wrongful death case
Jump to full article: Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, 2000-06-29
Author: Chris Thompson / Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Intro: Jury selection ended Wednesday in an 8-year-old wrongful death lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Attorneys for R.J. Reynolds and Kay T. Nunnally, who filed suit against the cigarette maker in 1992 over the death of her husband, Joseph Lee Nunnally, selected 12 jurors and four alternates from a pool of about 180 candidates.
Opening arguments for the trial are scheduled to begin this morning.
Jurors are expected to hear testimony from relatives and acquaintances that Joseph Nunnally started smoking between the ages of 8 and 10 and smoked for 27 years, said Charles Merkel of Clarksdale, a Nunnally attorney. . .
"Mr. Nunnally was well aware of the risks of smoking, was fully informed of these risks and assumed these risks for the 27 years that he smoked," Moskowitz said.
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