REIMER v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLASS CORP.

Civ. A. No. 77-C-492.

576 F.Supp. 197 (1983)

Clarence O. REIMER and Mary M. Reimer, Plaintiffs, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLASS CORPORATION, a foreign corporation; Johns-Manville Sales Company, a foreign corporation; and Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., a foreign corporation, Defendants, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLASS CORP., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. PITTSBURGH CORNING CORP., a foreign corporation; Keene Corp., a foreign corporation; Jim Walter Corp., a foreign corporation; Celotex Corp., a foreign corporation; Fiberboard Corp., a foreign corporation; GAF Corp., a foreign corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc., a foreign corporation; Atlas Asbestos Co., a foreign corporation; H.K. Porter Co., Inc., a foreign corporation; Southern Asbestos Company, a foreign corporation; Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc., a foreign corporation; Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulating Co., a foreign corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc., a foreign corporation; Armstrong Cork Co., a foreign corporation; Nicolet Inc., a foreign corporation; and Raybestos Manhattan, Inc., a foreign corporation, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

October 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert J. Goldberg, Goldberg, Previant, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Clarence O. Reimer and Mary M. Reimer, plaintiffs.

Kurt H. Frauen and Mark S. Young, Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., defendant and third-party plaintiff.

No attorney for Johns-Manville Sales Co., defendant — bankrupt and claims stayed.

Jeffrey A. Schmeckpeper and K.E. Kilmer, Kasdorf, Dall, Lewis & Swietlik, Milwaukee, Wis., for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., defendant.

Rex Capwell and James A. Pitts Capwell, Berthelsen, Nolden & Casanova, Ltd., Racine, Wis., for Pittsburgh Corning Corp., third-party defendant.

Daniel J. Stangle and Donald M. Lieb, Otjen & Van Ert, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Keene Corp., third-party defendant.

John D. Bird, Jr., Churchill, Duback & Smith, Milwaukee, Wis., for Jim Walter Corp. and Celotex Corp., third-party defendant.

Jack R. Wiedabach and Thomas Harrington, Prosser, Wiedabach & Quale, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Fiberboard Corp., third-party defendant.

Harney B. Stover, Jr., David, Kuelthau, Vergeront, Stover & Leichtfuss, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for GAF Corp., third-party defendant.

Richard S. Gibbs and John R. Hoaglund, Jr., Gibbs, Roper, Loots & Williams, Milwaukee, Wis., for Owens-Illinois, Inc. third-party defendant.

James P. O'Neill and Lawrence P. Zieger, Arnold, Murray, O'Neill & Schimmel, Milwaukee, Wis., for Atlas Asbestos Co., third-party defendant.

Hanlin J. Hayes and James Samuelson, Godfrey, Trump & Hayes, Milwaukee, Wis., for H.K. Porter Co., Inc., and Southern Asbestos Company, third-party defendants.

Arthur J. Vlasak, deVries, Vlasak & Schallert, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc., third-party defendant.

Neal C. Schellinger, James G. Doyle and Michael T. Hopkins, Schellinger & Doyle, Brookfield, Wis., for Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulating Co., third-party defendant.

No attorney for Unarco Industries, Inc., third-party defendant — bankrupt and claims stayed.

Peter S. Nelson, Menn, Nelson, Sharratt, Teetaert & Beisenstein, Ltd., Appleton, Wis., for Armstrong Cork Co., third-party defendant.

Frank R. Terschan, Frisch, Dudek & Slattery, Ltd., Milwaukee, Wis., for Nicolet Inc., third-party defendant.

James P. Brennan, Brennan & Collins, Milwaukee, Wis., for Raybestos Manhattan, Inc., third-party defendant.


DECISION AND ORDER

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

This is one of myriad actions pending in state and federal courts nationwide wherein the plaintiffs allege that the asbestosis from which they suffer, or from which their decedents suffered, was caused by exposure to the defendants' products. In this case, the defendants and the third-party defendants have moved for summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiffs did not file their complaint within the statutory...

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