Edward C. WILLIFORD, Appellee,
v.
ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC., A Pennsylvania Corporation; AC and S, Inc., A Foreign Corporation; The Celotex Corporation, A Delaware Corporation; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., An Ohio Corporation; Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc., An Illinois Corporation; Fibreboard Corp., Pabco Industrial Products Division, A Delaware Corporation; The Flintkote Company, A Foreign Corporation; GAF Corporation, A Delaware Corporation; Keene Corporation, A New Jersey Corporation; National Gypsum Company, A Foreign Corporation; Nicolet, Inc., A Pennsylvania Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., A Delaware Corporation; Owens-Illinois, An Ohio Corporation; H.K. Porter Company, Inc., A Foreign Corporation; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, A Foreign Corporation; Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., A Connecticut Corporation (Now known as Raymark Industries, Inc.); Rock Wool Manufacturing Company, A Foreign Corporation, Appellants, and
Crown Cork & Seal, A Foreign Corporation; Empire Ace, A Foreign Corporation; Johns-Manville Amiante Canada, Inc., A Foreign Corporation; Johns-Manville Corporation, A Delaware Corporation; Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, A Delaware Corporation; Lake Asbestow, A Delaware Corporation; Standard Insulation, A Missouri Corporation; Turner and Newall Limited, A Foreign Corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc., An Illinois Corporation, Defendants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued June 7, 1983.
Decided August 12, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
McNeill Smith, Greensboro, N.C. (Gerard H. Davidson, Jr., William L. Young, Timothy Peck, Greensboro, N.C., J. Brian Scott, Marshall A. Gallop, Jr., J. Charles Waldrup, Rocky Mount, N.C., William K. Davis, Richard V. Bennett, Winston Salem, N.C., Marvin D. Musselwhite, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., William D. Caffrey, Kenneth Kyre, Jr., Greensboro, N.C., Charles H. Mercer, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Donald E. Britt, Jr., Wilmington, N.C., Henry L. Anderson, Jr., Fayetteville, N.C., Fitzhugh E. Wallace, Kinston, N.C., Thomas E. Harris, New Bern, N.C., Richard Tyndall, H. Lee Davis, Jr., Richmond W. Rucker, Winston Salem, N.C., Richard M. Lewis, Armistead J. Maupin, Raleigh, N.C., F. Blackwell Stith, New Bern, N.C., James G. Billings, Raleigh, N.C., Thomas N. Barefoot, Manteo, N.C., Victor S. Bryant, Jr., Durham, N.C., Perry C. Henson, J. Victor Bowman, Greensboro, N.C., Robert M. Clay, Sanford W. Thompson, IV, Raleigh, N.C., W. Harold Mitchell, Valdese, N.C., Howard E. Manning, Sr., Howard E. Manning, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellants.
G. Brinson Williams, Barnwell, S.C. (Ronald L. Motley, Joseph F. Rice, Barnwell, S.C., Thomas F. Taft, Greenville, N.C., on brief), for appellees.
Before ERVIN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and KNAPP, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
DENNIS R. KNAPP, District Judge.
This action comes to this Court by way of an interlocutory appeal granted by the district court to the defendants, Armstrong World Industries, Inc., and certain other co-defendants (Appellants), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The district court refused to stay the trial of this case pending the resolution of proceedings in bankruptcy filed by four of the defendants, including Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, under Chapter 11...
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