KAISER v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC.

Civ. No. 86-1316 (JAF).

678 F.Supp. 29 (1987)

Sol KAISER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC., etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

December 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

María H. Sandoval, Nachman & Fernandez-Sein, San Juan, P.R., for plaintiffs.

Porter & Owens, Illinois; Edward A. Godoy, Feldstein Gelpi Hernandez & Gotay, San Juan, P.R., Burns & Levinson, Boston, Mass., for defendants Armstrong, Fibreboard, Celotex, Eagle-Picher, and GAF.

Ramón H. Vargas, Vargas & Rive, San Juan, P.R., for defendant Foster Wheeler.

Carlos E. Jiménez, Souffront & Souffront, San Juan, P.R., Neely & Player, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Raymark Industries.

Ricardo L. Rodriguez, San Juan, P.R., for defendant Harlock.


OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

Sol Kaiser, a former boiler technician with the United States Navy, filed this suit claiming that the defendants are liable in negligence and for breach of the warranty of fitness for his asbestos-induced condition. Diversity jurisdiction is invoked pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1332. Much discovery has already been conducted in this case. We see from the file that much...

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