MILLER v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES

No. 90SA423.

817 P.2d 111 (1991)

Raymond E. MILLER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. (Successor to Armstrong Cork Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation), Acands, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Combustion Engineering, Inc., (Successor to M.H. Detrick Company & Walsh Refractory, a Delaware Corporation), Fibreboard Corporation (Successor to Plant Rubber & Asbestos Co., a Delaware Corporation), GAF Corporation (Successor to Ruberoid Corp., a Delaware Corporation), National Gypsum Company, a Delaware Corporation (Successor to Keasby & Mattison Corp., a Delaware Corporation), Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation (Successor to Unarco Industries, Inc.), Raymark Industries, Inc., (Successor to Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), Turner & Newall, Ltd. (Successor to Keasby Mattison Corp.), a Public Corporation Organized Under the Laws of the United Kingdom, and United States Gypsum Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants, and The Celotex Corporation (Successor to Phillip-Carey Manufacturing Corporation, a Delaware Corporation), Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., an Ohio Corporation, the Keene Corporation (Successor to Baldwin-Ehert Hill Co. and Corp.), and Owens-Illinois, Inc. (Successor to Owens-Illinois Glass Co., an Illinois Corporation), Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 16, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Trine, P.C., J. Conard Metcalf, Michael A. Patrick, Jean E. Dubofsky, Boulder, for plaintiff-appellant.

White & Steele, William F. Campbell, Denver, for defendant-appellee The Celotex Corp.

Hutchinson, Black, Hill & Cook, William D. Meyer, David M. Packard, John B. Greer, Boulder, for defendant-appellee Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Pryor, Carney & Johnson, W. Randolph Barnhart, Peggy S. Ball, Englewood, for defendants-appellees The Keene Corp. and Owens-Illinois, Inc.


Justice ERICKSON delivered the Opinion of the Court.

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