SHOCKLEY v. HOECHST CELANESE CORP.

Civ. A. No. 6:90-0018-3.

793 F.Supp. 670 (1992)

Milton M. SHOCKLEY, Jr., Roy C. Young, Jr., and W.H. Alford, Plaintiffs, v. HOECHST CELANESE CORPORATION, Aqua-Tech Environmental, Inc., William H. Groce, III, Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc., and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Greenville Division.

April 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kendall Few, John C. Few, Few & Few, P.A., Greenville, S.C., for Milton M. Shockley, Jr., Roy C. Young, Jr., W.H. Alford.

Stanley Turner Case, Spartanburg, S.C., David L. Freeman, Bradford Wheeler Wyche, Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, S.C., Koger McIntosh Bradford, Holcombe, Bomar, Cothran and Gunn, P.A., Spartanburg, S.C., for Hoechst Celanese Corp.

Russell W. Harter, Jr., Chapman, Harter & Groves, P.A., Greenville, S.C., Walter Allen Reese, Ronald William McKinney, Duggan, Reese & McKinney, Greer, S.C., for William H. Groce, III.

Theodore von Keller, Adams, Quackenbush, Herring & Stuart, P.A., Columbia, S.C., Jeffrey N. Martin, Patrick McGlone, Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Browning-Ferris Industries Chemical Services, Inc.

Martha E. Johnson, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, for Shakespeare Co.

Robert W. Sullivan, Fort Mill, S.C., for M. Lowenstein Corp.

Joseph A. Rhodes, Jr., Haynsworth, Baldwin, Miles, Johnson, Greaves & Edwards, Greenville, S.C., for Jadco Inc., JP Stevens & Co., Inc.

David Horton Wilkins, Timothy E. Madden, Wilkins, Nelson and Kittredge, P.A., Greenville, S.C., for Greerco Inc.

Robert Wightman Dibble, Jr., James William Potter, Richard Michael Smith, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Columbia, S.C., for Allied Chemical Nuclear Products, Inc., North American Phillips Corp., WR Grace & Co.-Conn, Dow Chemical Co., Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co., CH Patrick & Co., Inc., BASF Corp., North American Philips Corp.

William Benson Darwin, Jr., William Ussery Gunn, Holcombe, Bomar, Cothran & Gunn, P.A., Spartanburg, S.C., Charles H. Tisdale, Jr., James Vines, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Ga., for Proctor Chemical Co., Inc.

Steven Edward Farrar, J. Richard Kelly, Joseph Edmund Major, Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, S.C., for Platt Saco Lowell Corp.

Russell Thomas Burke, Leon Carroll Harmon, Harold W. Jacobs, Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, Columbia, S.C., for Square D Co.

William Alexander Coates, Greenville, S.C., for Owens/Corning Fiberglas Corp., Exide Corp., Minnesota Min. & Mfg. Co., General Battery Corp.

John A. Hagins, Jr., Brown & Hagins, P.A., Greenville, S.C., Joseph Kearfott, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., for Textron Inc.

John Bowman McLeod, Greenville, S.C., for Steel Heddle Mfg. Co.

Stephen Henry Brown, Leo Howard Hill, Hill, Wyatt & Bannister, Greenville, S.C., for Baxter Healthcare Corp.


ORDER

GEORGE ROSS ANDERSON, Jr., District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the renewed motions of Defendants Hoechst Celanese Corporation and William H. Groce, III for judgment as a matter of law under Rule 50(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. For the reasons set forth below, the motions are denied.

I. Factual Summary

Mr. Groce worked at the Hoechst Celanese plant near Greer as a chemist for seven years until approximately...

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