IN RE FELA ASBESTOS LITIGATION

Civ. A. No. 83-0814-R.

638 F.Supp. 107 (1986)

In re FELA ASBESTOS LITIGATION. Cecil S. WINGO, Sr., Plaintiff, v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, et al., v. H.K. PORTER COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia.

May 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Rice, Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, S.C., Ross C. Hart, Hart & Hart, Attys., Ltd., Roanoke, Va., J. Weldon Granger, Jones & Granger, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Archibald Wallace III, Keene & Celotex, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, Richmond, Va., for H.K. Porter and St Corp.

William B. Poff, Roanoke, Va., for Norfolk & Western Ry.

S. Lawrence Dumville, Norfolk, Va., for Nicolet.

William S. Davies, Jr., David G. Traylor, Jr., Nelson, Mullins, Grier & Scarborough, Columbia, S.C., Philip G. Gardner, Martinsville, Va., for Atlas Turner.

James A.L. Daniel, Meade, Tate & Daniel, Danville, Va., for Gen. Elec.

James C. Shannon, Duane & Shannon, Richmond, Va., for Garlock.

William T. Wilson, William T. Wilson & Associates, Covington, Va., for U.S. Gypsum.

David Craig Landin, William H. King, Jr., McGuire, Woods & Battle, Charlottesville, Va., for Westinghouse Elec. Corp.

William H. Lindsey, Claude M. Lauck, Glenn, Flippin, Feldmann, & Darby, Roanoke, Va., for Anchor Packing.

Jerry K. Jebo, Jebo & Rosenthal, Radford, Va., for E.A. Kinsey Co.

Ronald D. Hodges, Glenn M. Hodge, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, Va., for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

James M. McCauley, Hoyle, Corbett, Hubbard & Smith, Newport News, Va., for Raymark.

James L. Hutton, Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton, Blacksburg, Va., for Koppers.

John W. Zunka, Jane P. Long, Taylor & Zunka, Ltd., Charlottesville, Va., Thomas S. Schaufelberger, Alan Klein, Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Stuart A. Law, Jr., Drinker, Biddle, & Reath, Washington, D.C. for Uniroyal, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KISER, District Judge.

Before the Court is the Norfolk & Western Railway Company's ("N & W") motion for entry of judgment on its cross-claim seeking indemnity from the Celotex Corporation, Keene Corporation, and H.K. Porter Company, Inc. ("Manufacturing Defendants").1 I believe that indemnity is appropriate under the facts of this case, therefore, I shall grant the N & W's motion.

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