CATHCART v. KEENE INDUS. INSULATION


324 Pa.Super. 123 (1984)

471 A.2d 493

David and Thelma CATHCART, Appellants, v. KEENE INDUSTRIAL INSULATION, Amatex, Southern Asbestos, Nicolet Industries, Delaware Asbestos and Rubber Co., Johns-Manville, Raybestos-Manhattan, Philip Carey, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Philadelphia Asbestos, Ehret, Baldwin-Hill, Ehret Baldwin-Hill, United Asbestos and Rubber Co. (UNARCO), Pabco Industrial Products Division, GAF, H.K. Porter, J.P. Stevens, Certain-Teed Products Corp., Eagle-Picher Forty-Eight Insulation, Asbestos Textile Co., John Doe. David and Thelma CATHCART, Appellants, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Raybestos-Manhattan, Forty-Eight Insulation, Nicolet Industries, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, GAF, Armstrong Cork Co., UNARCO Industries, H.K. Porter Co., Southern Asbestos Company, Eagle-Picher, Delaware Asbestos & Rubber Co., Fibreboard Corp., Pabco Industrial Products Division, Keene Corp., Glen Alden, Rapid American, Turner & Newall, Keasbey & Mattison Co., Certain-Teed Products Corp., U.S. Rubber Co., Inc., Philip Carey Manufacturing Co., Asbestos Textile Institute, Uni-Royal Inc., Carolina Asbestos Co., J. Franklin Burke Co., General Asbestos Co., Asbestos Textile Co., Thermoid Company, Astenhill Manufacturing Co., Ruberoid Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed January 13, 1984.

Petition for Allowance of Appeal Denied April 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Shein and Robert E. Paul, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Charles J. Kolinoski, Philadelphia, for appellees.

Before CERCONE, President Judge, and SPAETH, HESTER, CAVANAUGH, WICKERSHAM, WIEAND and HOFFMAN, JJ.


HESTER, Judge:

Appellants, David and Thelma Cathcart, brought suit on February 6, 1976, at No. 923 February Term, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the 1976 action) against the following thirty-one defendants (listed alphabetically), by filing a Writ of Summons in Trespass: Amatex Corp.; American Textile; Asbestos Textile Corp.; Baldwin Hill; Benjamin Foster Div. of Amchem Products, Inc.; Carey; Carolina Narrow...

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