JARUSEWICZ v. JOHNS-MANVILLE PRODUCTS CORP.


188 N.J. Super. 638 (1983)

458 A.2d 156

FRANK J. JARUSEWICZ AND MARY JARUSEWICZ, HIS WIFE, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE PRODUCTS CORP., ET AL., DEFENDANTS AND THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFFS, v. JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT CO., THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Middlesex County.

Decided February 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Darnell for plaintiffs (Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, attorneys).

Philip V. Lago for defendant GAF (Hannoch, Weisman, Stern, Besser, Berkowitz & Kinney, attorneys).

Steven A. Weiner for defendant Johns-Manville (Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo & Rosenbaum, attorneys).

William R. Connelly for defendant Quigley Co. (Ravin, Davis & Sweet, attorneys).

Stephen J. Foley for defendant Porter-Hayden (Campbell, Foley, Lee, Murphy & Cernigliaro, attorneys).

James F. Hyland for defendant Pittsburgh Corning (Evans, Koelzer Marriott, Osborne & Kreizman, attorneys, and Henry R. Simon, attorney).

Peter W. Sachs for defendants A.P. Green Refractories and Metropolitan Refractories (Sachs and Sachs, attorneys).

Peter A. Piro for defendant Combustion Engineering (Haskins, Hack, Piro and O'Day, attorneys).

H. Frank Carpentier for defendant Flintkote Mines (Carton, Nary, Witt & Arvanitis, attorneys).

Brian J. Coyle for defendant Owens-Corning Fiberglas (Harwood, Lloyd, Ryan, Coyle & McBride, attorneys).

Linda P. Torres for defendant Keene Corp. (Lowenstein, Sandler, Brochin, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, attorneys).

Gita F. Rothschild for defendant Owens-Illinois (McCarter & English, attorneys).

Thomas F. Tansey for defendant Nicolet (Morley, Cramer, Tansey, Haggerty & Fanning, attorneys).

George P. Moser, Jr. for defendant Armstrong World Industries (Moser, Roveto, McGough & vonSchaumburg, attorneys).

Steven E. Brawer for defendant Babcock & Wilcox (Rosenberg & Brawer, attorneys and Richard A. DeMichele, attorney).

Brian P. Sullivan for defendant Atlas Turner (Smith, Stratton, Wise & Heher, attorneys).

Barbara A. Schwab for defendant Philip Carey (Lamb, Chappell, Hartung, Gallipoli & Coughlin, attorneys).

Michael P. McGrath for defendant State Insulation (Enright, Porter & Lenney, attorneys).


KEEFE, J.S.C.

The issues to be decided on this motion are: whether plaintiffs' amended complaint joining 16 additional defendants in this case violates the statute of limitations and, if so, whether plaintiffs correctly used the fictitious name practice permitted by R. 4:26-4 thereby avoiding application of the statute. For the reasons stated herein both questions are answered in the affirmative.

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