JONES v. KEENE CORP.

No. 90-5364.

933 F.2d 209 (1991)

Agnes JONES and Raymond Jones, Appellants, v. KEENE CORPORATION, Keene Corporation, successor to Baldwin Hill Co., Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co., Baldwin Ehret Hill, Inc. and Keene Building Products, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Garlock, Inc., Raymark Industries, Inc., Individually and as successor to Raybestos Manhattan, Inc., Raymark Corporation, Individually and as successor to Raybestos Manhattan, Inc., Raytech Composites, Inc., Celotex Corporation, Celotex Corporation, successor to the Philip Carey Corporation, Philip Carey Company, Inc., Xpru Corporation, Briggs Manufacturing Company, Panacon Corporation and Smith and Kanzler, Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, U.S. Gypsum Company, GAF Corporation, GAF Corporation, successor to The Ruberoid Company, Atlas Turner, Inc., formerly known as Atlas Asbestos Company, Babcock and Wilcox Co., Individually and as successor to B & W Refractories Limited, Standard Refractories Limited, and Holmes Blunt, Ltd., The Flintkote Company, The Anchor Packing Company, Condenser Specialities and Repairs, Inc., Condenser Specialities and Repairs, Inc., successor to Condenser Service and Engineering, Fibreboard Corporation, successor to Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, Pabco Products, Inc., and Plant Rubber & Asbestos Works, Inc., United Conveyor Corporation, A.P. Green Refractories, Inc., Individually and as successor to A.P. Green Fire Brick Company, Metropolitan Refractories Co., Quigley Co., Inc., General Electric Company, Worthington Corporation, Diamond Power Specialty Company, Inc., Arcy Manufacturing Company, Inc., Metallo Gasket Company, Flexitallic Gasket Company, Inc., Combustion Engineering, Inc., Individually and as successor to M.H. Detrick Company, Walsh Refractory Corporation and Refractory and Insulation Corporation, now known as C & E Refractories, Alltite Gasket Company, Empire Ace Insulation Mfg. Corp., Individually and as successor to Empire Asbestos Co. and Ace Asbestos Co., Ingersoll-Rand, Turner & Newall, Ltd., and Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Locks (argued), Martin Greitzer, Jonathan W. Miller, and Michael B. Leh, Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

R. Bruce Morrison, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., and George R. Kucik and Joel D. Rubin (argued), Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D.C., for appellee Manville Corp. Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund.

Before BECKER and HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.

Raymond Jones (Raymond) and his wife Agnes Jones (collectively "the Joneses") appeal from the district court's denial of post-judgment interest on the portion of their asbestos-disease award due them from the Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Fund (the Fund). The Joneses had won a $20,000.00 verdict. The Fund was responsible for $5000.00. We will affirm the district court's decision.

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