JOYCE v. A.C. & S., INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-0004-D.

591 F.Supp. 449 (1984)

James Troy JOYCE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. A.C. & S., INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Danville Division.

July 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, Del., Fred D. Smith, Jr., Martinsville, Va., for plaintiffs.

J.A. Stalnaker, Williams, Worrell, Kelly & Greer, P.C., Norfolk, Va., for Owens-Corning.

John B. King, Jr., Robert L. O'Donnell, Vanderventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., for Pittsburg Corp.

Lewis T. Booker, Virginia W. Powell, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va. and Catherine B. Hagerty, Rick A. Harrington, Legal Dept., Wilmington, Del., for E.I. DuPont.

Howard W. Rhodes, Jr., Rhodes, Jennings & Livingston, Lynchburg, Va., for Fiberboard Corp.

Henry C. Morgan, Jr., Pender & Coward, Virginia Beach, Va., for Keene Corp.

Archibald Wallace, III, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, G. Edgar Dawson, III, William N. Watkins, Richmond, Va., for Southern Textile Corp.

Henry M. Sackett, III, Bevin R. Alexander, Jr., Edmunds, Williams, Robertson, Sackett, Baldwin & Graves, Lynchburg, Va., for A.C. & S., Inc.

William S. Davies, Jr., Nelson, Mullins, Grier & Scarborough, David G. Traylor, Jr., Columbia, S.C., Philip G. Gardner, Assoc. Counsel, Martinsville, Va., for Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd. and Atlas Turner, Ltd.

John Y. Pearson, Jr., Bruce T. Bishop, Willcox, Savage, Dickson, Hollis & Eley, Norfolk, Va., for Celotex Corp.

Hunter W. Sims, Jr., Becky A. Powhatan, Kaufman & Canoles, Norfolk, Va., for GAF Corp.

Samuel Lawrence Dumville, Edward L. Breeden, III, Breeden, Howard & MacMillan, Norfolk, Va., for Nicolet, Inc.

William O. Tune, Jr., Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Linda A. Davis, Roanoke, Va., for Armstrong World Ind. Inc. and Armstrong Cork Co.

James L. Hutton, Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton, Blacksburg, Va., for Eagle Picher Ind., Inc.

Charles A. Smith, Hoyle, Corbett, Hubbard, Smith & Payne, Newport News, Va., for Raymark Ind., Inc.

Beckman Rich, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, Joseph M. Winston, Jr., W. Carrington Thompson, Clement & Wheatley, Danville, Va., for Turner & Newall.

Donald S. Elmore, Elmore & Parker, Richmond, Va., for Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KISER, District Judge.

James Troy Joyce, a citizen of Virginia, brought suit on January 11, 1983, alleging that due to the actions of the Defendants, various manufacturers, miners, and suppliers of asbestos and asbestos products, he has suffered damages caused by the diseases which he allegedly developed as a result of his exposure to asbestos.1 Jurisdiction rests in this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §...

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