CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIV. v. NATIONAL GYPSUM CO.

Nos. 86-8416, 86-8693.

877 F.2d 35 (1989)

The CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, a Delaware Corp., et al., Defendants-Appellees. The CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, and W.R. Grace & Co., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 11, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darci L. Rock, Bracewell & Patterson, William A. Anderson, II, Mary Caroline Parker, Luis M. Nido, Washington, D.C., Martin W. Dies, Jr., Law Offices of Martin Dies, Orange, Tex., Charles M. Stapleton, Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Cubbedge Snow, Jr., Macon, Ga., for Corporation of Mercer University.

Richard M. Bernstein, Lawrence T. Hoyle, Hoyle, Morris & Kerr, Philadelphia, Pa., Shepard M. Remis, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Sandra Sue McQuay, Boston, Mass., Thomas B. Kenworthy, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., A. Stephens Clay, Mara McRae, Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, Ga., for National Gypsum Co., et al.

Shepard M. Remis, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Kenneth A. Cohen, Boston, Mass., for W.R. Grace & Co.

Before HILL and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and SPELLMAN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Mercer University filed actions in district court on April 9, 1985, against several manufacturers of construction products including defendants United States Gypsum, National Gypsum and W.R. Grace & Co. Mercer sought to recover damages in tort for injury to its property arising out of defendants' sale to it of products containing asbestos. Mercer alleged that these products were installed in its buildings between...

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