MURRAY v. PHILADELPHIA ASBESTOS CORP.


433 Pa.Super. 206 (1994)

640 A.2d 446

Theodore and Mary MURRAY, H/W v. PHILADELPHIA ASBESTOS CORPORATION, GAF Corporation, Raymark Corporation, Southern Textile Company, Garlock Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Keene Corporation, Celotex Corporation, J.P. Stevens and Company, Inc., and Owens-Illinois, Inc. Appeal of FIBREBOARD CORPORATION. Theodore MURRAY and Mary K. Murray, H/W v. PACOR, INC., Eagle Picher Industries, Keene Corporation, Southern Textile Company, J.P. Stevens Company, Celotex, Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. and Raymark, Inc. Appeal of OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. Theodore MURRAY and Mary K. Murray, H/W v. PACOR, INC., Eagle Picher Industries, Keene Corporation, Southern Textile Company, J.P. Stevens Company, Garlock, Inc., Celotex, Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. and Raymark, Inc. Appeal of KEENE CORPORATION. James R. and Eleanor L. SIMMONS, H/W v. PHILADELPHIA ASBESTOS CORPORATION, GAF Corporation, Raymark Corporation, Southern Textile Company, Garlock, Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Keene Corporation, Celotex, Corporation, J.P. Stevens and Company, Inc., and Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Appeal of FIBREBOARD CORPORATION. James R. SIMMONS and Eleanor L. Simmons, H/W v. PACOR, INC., Eagle Picher Industries, Keene Corporation, Southern Textile Company, J.P. Stevens Company, Garlock, Inc., Celotex, Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. and Raymark, Inc. Appeal of OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS CO. James R. SIMMONS and Eleanor L. Simmons, H/W v. PACOR, INC., Eagle Picher Industries, Keene Corporation, Southern Textile Company, J.P. Stevens Company, Garlock, Inc., Celotex, Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. and Raymark, Inc. Appeal of KEENE CORPORATION.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed April 11, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Lefton and David A. Cohen, Philadelphia, for Fibreboard, appellant (at 2859 and 2862), Owens-Illinois, appellant (at 2860 and 2863), Keene Corp., appellant (at 2861 and 2864)

Steven J. Cooperstein, Philadelphia, for Murray and Simmons, appellees.

Before CAVANAUGH, JOHNSON and HOFFMAN, JJ.


HOFFMAN, Judge.

Before this court are the consolidated appeals of Fibreboard Corporation ["Fibreboard"], Keene Corporation ["Keene"] and Owens-Illinois, Inc. ["O-I"] from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County entered July 23, 1992. In the order, the court denied appellants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, new trial or remittitur; granted appellees', Theodore and Mary Murray and James and Eleanor Simmons, motions for delay damages...

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