PAULEY v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.

Civ. A. No. 77-3277.

528 F.Supp. 759 (1981)

John W. PAULEY and Oreda F. Pauley, Plaintiffs, v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC., a Delaware corporation; Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, a Delaware corporation, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia, Huntington Division.

October 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Menis F. Ketchum, Lawrence J. Tweel, Huntington, W. Va., Ronald L. Motley, Barnwell, S. C., for plaintiffs.

John F. Wood, Jr. and Roy D. Baker, Jr., Wood, Grimm & Delp, Huntington, W. Va., for Combustion Engineering, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Rock Wool Manufacturing Co., Certain-Teed Products Corp. and The Fiberglas Corp.

Robert L. Elkins and W. Henry Jernigan, Jr., Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, Charleston, W. Va., for Johns-Manville Sales Corp. and Johns-Manville Products Corp.

Fred Adkins, Huddleston, Bolen, Beatty, Porter & Copen, Huntington, W. Va., for Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd. and Atlas Asbestos Co.

R. Kemp Morton, Huddleston, Bolen, Beatty, Porter & Copen, Huntington, W. Va., for Nicolet Industries.

George S. Sharp, Kay, Casto & Chaney, Charleston, W. Va., for H. K. Porter, Inc. and Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulating Co.

Lee O. Fitch, Miller, Searl & Fitch, Portsmouth, Ohio, for Keene Corp. and Keene Building Products Corp.

R. G. McNeer, Campbell, Woods, Bagley, Emerson, McNeer & Herndon, Huntington, W. Va., for Eagle-Picher Industries.

Robert M. Levy, Huntington, W. Va., for The Celotex Corp.

Norman K. Fenstermaker and James D. Lamp, Jenkins, Fenstermaker, Krieger, Kayes & Farrell, Huntington, W. Va., for Unarco Industries, Inc.

George G. Guthrie and Charles S. Woody, Spilman, Thomas, Battle & Klostermeyer, Charleston, W. Va., for GAF Corp.

Edward W. Eardley, Steptoe & Johnson, Charleston, W. Va., for Fibreboard Corp.

W. E. Mohler, Charleston, W. Va., for Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Fred L. Davis, Jr., Davis, Davis, Hall & Clovis, Parkersburg, W. Va., for Armstrong Cork Co.

Robert H. Sack, Benjamin, Faulkner, Tepe & Sack, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

STAKER, District Judge.

Pending before the court is the defendants' Motion to Dismiss based upon the grounds that the complaint filed herein is barred by the applicable statute of limitations. The plaintiff filed this action on November 3, 1977, seeking damages for injuries allegedly sustained as a result of his exposure to defendants' products containing asbestos.

Plaintiff worked as an insulator for Union Carbide Corporation from...

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