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BUMGARDNER v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.

Civ. A. No. 77-995.

432 F.Supp. 1289 (1977)

William J. BUMGARDNER, Plaintiff, v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC., a Delaware Corporation, et al.

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

June 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Motley and Terry Richardson of Barnwell, S.C., for plaintiff.

G. Dewey Oxner, Jr., James B. Pressley, Jr., Greenville, S.C., for Combustion, Certain-Teed, Pittsburg Corning, Eagle-Picher, Rock Wool Manufacturing.

William A. Horger, Orangeburg, S.C., for Johns-Manville.

Michael T. Cole, Charleston, S.C., for Unarco.

W. H. Arnold, Greenville, S.C., for Owens-Corning.

Charles W. Wofford, Greenville, S.C., for GAF Corp.

Robert H. Hood, Charleston, S.C., for Forty-Eight, Keene, Raybestos-Manhattan.

E. W. Laney, III, Columbia, S.C., for Southern Asbestos.

Rembert D. Parler, Spartanburg, S.C., for Armstrong Cork.

Thomas M. Boulware, Barnwell, S.C., for Flintkote.

Edward D. Buckley, Charleston, S.C., for Nicolet.

William S. Davies, Jr., Columbia, S.C., for Atlas Asbestos.

N. Heyward Clarkson, III, Greenville, S.C., for Covil.

Robert R. Carpenter, Rock Hill, S.C., for Celotex.

Joe R. Young, Wallace G. Holland, Charleston, S.C., for Standard Asbestos.

ORDER

CHAPMAN, District Judge.

This is one of many so-called "asbestosis cases". In each case the plaintiff seeks recovery from various manufacturers, distributors and retailers of asbestos and materials containing asbestos on the ground that he or she contracted the lung disease known as "asbestosis" from working with and being exposed to products manufactured and sold by the defendants.

The plaintiff in this case, a resident of North Carolina,...

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