MERGENTHALER v. ASBESTOS CORP. OF AMERICA


480 A.2d 647 (1984)

Charles MERGENTHALER, et al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. ASBESTOS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants Below, Appellees, Randolph PANNELL, et al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. ASBESTOS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants Below, Appellees. Earl R. NUTT, et al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. ASBESTOS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants Below, Appellees, George RICKARDS, et al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. ASBESTOS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: July 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Crumplar, Wilmington (argued) of Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, for appellants.

Catherine B. Hagerty and Richard Allen Paul of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, and Thomas L. Morrissey (argued) of Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Newark, N.J., of counsel, for appellee E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co.

Mary Pat Trostle and Philip B. Barto-shewsky of Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, for appellee Haveg.

James W. Semple and Francis J. Jones, Jr. of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for appellee Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

Before McNEILLY, HORSEY and MOORE, JJ.


McNEILLY, Justice:

This appeal from the August 23, 1983 Opinion, 466 A.2d 18, and September 22, 1983 Order of the Superior Court represents a second appeal to this Court in this matter. In the first appeal, two actions were consolidated which involved claims of gross negligence and intentional tort against defendants (the plaintiffs' former or present employers and a number of other corporations...

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