JOHN VISPISIANO AND BARBARA VISPISIANO, HIS WIFE, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, AND GENE CONLON AND NAN CONLON, HIS WIFE, PLAINTIFFS,
v.
ASHLAND CHEMICAL CO., M & M MARS, MARKTEX CORPORATION, ELCO SOLVENTS, BECTON DICKINSON COMPANY, CELANESE CORP., MAAS & WALDSTEIN COMPANY, ALPHA METALS INC., GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION, INMONT CORPORATION, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL, FMC CORP., AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC., CHARLES OF THE RITZ, ROWE INTERNATIONAL, INC., EMULSITONE COMPANY, WARNER-CHILCOTT LABS, ITT RAYONIER INC., SUN CHEMICAL COMPANY, SEALED AIR CORPORATION, AMERICAN CYANAMID CO., ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL CORP., ORTHO DIAGNOSTICS INC., STERLING DRUG INC., AMERICAN HOECHST CORP., ALCAN ALUMINUM CORPORATION, EXXON CORP., COSMAIR INC., J.B. WILLIAMS CO., INC., LILLY INDUSTRIAL COATINGS CO., INC., AND CONGOLEUM INDUSTRIES, INC., DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS, AND STRANAHAN FOIL COMPANY, HAWARD CORPORATION, NASSAU CHEMICAL CORPORATION, ARVEY CORPORATION, NAPCO CHEMICAL DIVISION, TENNECO CHEMICALS INCORPORATED, TEMPIL, SANDOZ-WANDER INCORPORATED, BATES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, DIAMOND SHAMROCK CORPORATION, MENNEN COMPANY, NATIONAL STARCH & CHEMICAL COMPANY, REICHHOLD CHEMICALS INCORPORATED, BRISTOL MEYERS PRODUCTS, MILTON CAN COMPANY, ALUMINUM SHAPES INCORPORATED, LIGHTMAN DRUM COMPANY, AND THIOKOL CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS.
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Argued January 23, 1986.
Decided June 29, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jane B. Cantor argued the cause for appellants (Garuto, Galex & Cantor, attorneys; Ms. Cantor and Carol F. Gerity, on the briefs).
Michael D. Loprete argued the cause for respondents (Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, attorneys for Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., and Ortho Diagnostics Inc.; Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, attorneys for J.B. Williams Co., Inc.; Tompkins, McGuire & Wachenfeld, attorneys for Lilly Industrial Coatings Co., Inc.; Connell, Foley & Geiser, attorneys for Emulsitone Company; Dughi & Hewit, attorneys for Congoleum Industries, Inc. and Warner-Chilcott Labs; Hanlon, Dempsey & McHeffey, attorneys for General Foods Corporation; Hoagland, Longo, Oropollo & Moran, attorneys for Maas & Waldstein Company; Lasser,Hochman, Marcus, Guryan & Kuskin, attorneys for Alpha Metals Inc. and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical; Levinson, Conover, Axelrod & Wheaton, attorneys for Inmont Corporation; McCarter & English, attorneys for Alcan Aluminum Corp.; Paul X. McMenaman, attorney for Sun Chemical Company; Melli & Doyne, attorneys for Charles of the Ritz; Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan, Arvidson, Abrutyn & Lisowski, attorneys for American Hoechst Corporation, Ashland Chemical Company and ITT Rayonier Inc.; Morley, Cramer, Tansey, Haggerty & Fanning, attorneys for Elco Solvents; Moser, Roveto, McGough & von Schaumburgh attorneys for M & M Mars; Purcell, Ries, Shannon & Mulcahy, attorneys for Sterling Drug Inc.; Ronca, McDonald, Judge & Hanley, attorneys for Marktex Corporation; Scanlon & Robinson, attorneys for Cosmair Inc.; Sills, Beck, Cummis, Zuckerman, Radin & Tischman, attorneys for Becton Dickinson Company; Kirsten, Simon, Friedman, Allen, Cherin & Linken, attorneys for Sealed Air Corporation; Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, attorneys for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., American Cyanamid Co., Celanese Corp., Exxon Corp. and FMC Corp.; Michael D. Loprete, Robert L. Hollingshead and Claire T. Barile, on the brief).
Peter A. Piro submitted a letter in lieu of brief on behalf of respondent Rowe International, Inc. (Haskins, Hack, Piro, O'Day, Merklinger & Wallace, attorneys).
The Supreme Court of New Jersey.
PER CURIAM.
The "discovery rule" is an equitable principle by which the accrual of a cause of action is delayed "until the injured party discovers, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence and intelligence should have discovered[,] that he may have a basis for an actionable claim." Viviano v. CBS, Inc.,101 N.J. 538, 546 (1986) (quoting Lopez v. Swyer,62 N.J. 267, 272 (1973)). This appeal...
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