LOWERY v. McCORMICK ASBESTOS CO.

No. 119, September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 28 (1984)

475 A.2d 1168

LUCILLE P. LOWERY, IND., AND AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE W. LOWERY, DECEASED v. McCORMICK ASBESTOS COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard M. Goldstein, Baltimore (William D. Kurtz, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

R. Roger Drechsler and Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green, P.A., Baltimore, on the brief, amicus curiae for Wallace and Gale Co.

Russell D. Karpook, Towson (William F. Mosner and Power & Mosner, Towson, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and ALBERT W. MENCHINE, Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.


W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.

Lucille P. Lowery, as widow and personal representative of George W. Lowery, instituted an action in the Superior Court of Baltimore City (now Circuit Court for Baltimore City) against McCormick Asbestos Company and fourteen other corporations for negligence and strict liability in tort.

The declaration was in four counts — the first and second as surviving widow against each defendant for negligence...

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