J.W. WILDER
v.
AMATEX CORPORATION, the Celotex Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Unarco Industries, Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Nicolet Industries, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc., Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Keene Corporation, Carey-Canada, Inc., Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Standard Asbestos Insulation, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, H.K. Porter, Empire Ace Insulation Manufacturing and Insulating Company, Turner-Newall, Ltd., Rock Wool Manufacturing Company, the Flintkote Company, Lake Asbestos of Quebec, Ltd., Southern Textiles Corporation, Starr-Davis, Inc., Starr-Davis Company, Inc. of South Carolina, National Gypsum Company, A.C. & S., Inc., U.S. Mineral Products Company, North Brothers, Inc., Johns-Manville Amiante Canada, Inc.
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November 5, 1985.
November 5, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Haywood, Denny, Miller, Johnson, Sessoms & Haywood by Michael W. Patrick and George W. Miller, Jr., Chapel Hill, for plaintiff-appellant.
Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, P.A. by Armistead J. Maupin, Richard M. Lewis and Mark S. Thomas, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.
Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A. by Richard V. Bennett and William Kearns Davis, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellee Pittsburgh Corning Corp.
Stith & Stith by F. Blackwell Stith, New Bern, for defendant-appellee The Celotex Corp.
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by Thomas N. Barefoot and James Billings, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Keene Corp.
Brown & Johnson by C.K. Brown, Jr., Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Starr-Davis Co.
Poisson, Barnhill & Britt by Donald E. Britt, Jr. and Stuart L. Egerton for defendant-appellee Owens-Corning Fiberglass.
Taft, Taft & Haigler by Thomas F. Taft, Vickie Bletso and Kenneth E. Haigler, Greenville, for the amicus curiae, North Carolina White Lung Ass'n.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
EXUM, Justice.
Plaintiff seeks damages for the disease asbestosis which he claims was caused by his exposure to products manufactured, sold or distributed by defendants.1 Plaintiff alleges that he contracted the disease asbestosis through years of on-the-job contact with asbestos products manufactured, sold or distributed by the various defendants. Defendant appellees, after answering, moved for summary judgment, asserting in their motions...
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