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WOODY v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 3-78-158 to 3-78-163, 3-78-166 to 3-78-169, 3-78-171 to 3-78-175, 3-78-177 to 3-78-193, 3-78-195 and 3-78-200 to 3-78-205.

463 F.Supp. 817 (1978)

Herbert W. WOODY, Jr. et ux., Thomas N. Allmon et ux., Jay Fred Campbell et ux., Robert R. Lowe et ux., J. B. Price et ux., Theodore L. Laws et ux., Charles L. Stephens et ux., Billy Jack Barlow et ux., Edgar Leon Poteet et ux., Lawrence Junior Hatfield et ux., Claude J. Hansard, Larry Allen Potts et ux., James A. Young et ux., Carson B. Keen et ux., Louis Dale Starnes et ux., Earl William Casey et ux., Lloyd W. Bawgus et ux., Don Keen, Lloyd Harold Hughes et ux., Lewis A. Johnson, John Ed Clay et ux., Billy H. Hughes et ux., Marie Clay et vir., Mamie Grace Campbell et vir., Ruth W. Woody et vir., Melvin L. Woody, Clyde Hansard et ux., Dossie Norris et al., Betty Jean Keen et vir., Raymond O. Davis et ux., Johnny E. Ballinger et ux., Janie Sue Ballinger et vir., Cheryl Ballinger Burkhart et vir., Jack Hopper et ux., Franklin D. Sharp et ux., Danna Lee Hopper et ux., Ralph Eugene Headrick et ux., Terry Caney Ellis et ux., Donald Milburn Ellis et ux., Plaintiffs, v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC., Johns-Manville Sales Corp., Johns-Manville Corp., Unarco Industries, Inc., GAF Corp., Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulating Co., Armstrong Cork Company, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., the Flintkote Co., Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp., Pittsburgh Corning Corp., the Celotex Corp., Nicolet Industries, a Pennsylvania Corp., Nicolet Industries, Individually & Successor by Merger to Keasbey & Mattison Co., Keene Corporation, a Delaware Corp., Keene Corp., Keene Building Products Corp., Rockwool Manufacturing Co., Inc., Certain-Teed Products Corp., Forty-Eight Insulation Co., Fiberboard Corp., Eagle-Picher Industries, Southern Asbestos Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Empire Ace Insulation Manufacturing Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

October 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Sweeney, Gilreath, Pryor & Rowland, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

G. W. Morton, Fred H. Cagle, Jr., Earl R. Layman, Louis C. Woolf, William D. Vines, III, J. W. Baker, Jr., William A. Young, Knoxville, Tenn., Hugh J. Moore, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., Thomas S. Scott, Jr., F. Graham Bartlett, Knoxville, Tenn., E. Riley Anderson, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Robert R. Campbell, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

The defendant, Nicolet, Inc. ("Nicolet"), has moved for partial summary judgment in a series of related products liability cases arising out of the alleged exposure of the plaintiffs to various asbestos products. In 1962, Nicolet purchased from Keasbey & Mattison Company ("K & M") most of the assets that had been used in K & M's industrial products division. Nicolet argues that it should not be liable...

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