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BEALE v. HARDY

No. 84-2028.

769 F.2d 213 (1985)

James W. BEALE; et al., Appellants, and Oklahoma Sand Company; New Jersey Silica Sand Company, Defendants, v. Thomas H. HARDY; George S. Wilson, III, Administrator of the Estate of Harry P. Hardy, deceased, Individually and Trading as Hardy Sand Company, an Indiana Partnership; The Mead Corporation; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Third Party Defendants, v. WHITEHEAD BROTHERS COMPANY; Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation; Hardy Sand Company; Warner Company; Manley Brothers; Thomas H. Hardy, individually and trading as Hardy Sand Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Gamble, Amherst, Va. (Donald G. Pendleton, Ronald D. Henderson, Pendleton & Gamble, Amherst, Va., S.J. Thompson, Jr., Gregory P. Cochran, John T. Cook, Caskie, Frost, Hobbs, Thompson, Knakal & Alford, Lynchburg, Va., John M. O'Quinn, Edwin L. McAninch, O'Quinn, Hagans & Wettman, Houston, Tex., on brief), for appellants.

James W. Morris, III, Richmond, Va. Richard K. Bennett, Caroline Loudow Lockerby, Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, Robert T. Billingsley, McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, Va., John M. Oakey, Jr., H. Slayton Dabney, Jr., Margaret G. Seiler, Mary Louise Kramer, S. Vernon Priddy, III, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, Colin J. S. Thomas, Jr., Bruce C. Phillips, Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, P.C., George W. Wooten, M. Lanier Woodrum, Woodward, Fox, Wooten & Hart, William B. Poff, Samuel G. Wilson, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove on brief), for appellees.

Before WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, past and present employees of the Lynchburg Foundry, sued twelve corporate defendants that allegedly supplied to the Lynchburg Foundry silica sand or related products used in the casting process at the foundry. Plaintiffs claimed that these defendants had a duty to warn directly the employees of the foundry of the risks and dangers of contracting silicosis by working with products containing silica. The defendants moved for summary...

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