Beale v. Hardy, No. 84-2028
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (4th Circuit) |
| Writing for the Court | Before WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges and HAYNSWORTH; CHAPMAN |
| Citation | 769 F.2d 213 |
| Parties | James W. BEALE; et al., Appellants, and Oklahoma Sand Company; New Jersey Silica Sand Company, Defendants, v. Thomas H. HARDY; George S. Wilson, III, Administrator of the Estate of Harry P. Hardy, deceased, Individually and Trading as Hardy Sand Company, an Indiana Partnership; The Mead Corporation; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Third Party Defendants, v. WHITEHEAD BROTHERS COMPANY; Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation; Hardy Sand Company; Warner Company; Manley Brothers; Thomas H. Hardy, individually and trading as Hardy Sand Company, Appellees. |
| Docket Number | No. 84-2028 |
| Decision Date | 07 August 1985 |
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and
Oklahoma Sand Company; New Jersey Silica Sand Company, Defendants,
v.
Thomas H. HARDY; George S. Wilson, III, Administrator of
the Estate of Harry P. Hardy, deceased, Individually and
Trading as Hardy Sand Company, an Indiana Partnership; The
Mead Corporation; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Third
Party Defendants,
v.
WHITEHEAD BROTHERS COMPANY; Pennsylvania Glass Sand
Corporation; Hardy Sand Company; Warner Company;
Manley Brothers; Thomas H. Hardy,
individually and trading as
Hardy Sand Company, Appellees.
Fourth Circuit.
Decided Aug. 7, 1985.
J. Michael Gamble, Amherst, Va. (Donald G. Pendleton, Ronald D. Henderson, Pendleton & Gamble, Amherst, Va., S.J. Thompson, Jr., Gregory P. Cochran, John T. Cook, Caskie, Frost, Hobbs, Thompson, Knakal & Alford, Lynchburg, Va., John M. O'Quinn, Edwin L. McAninch, O'Quinn, Hagans & Wettman, Houston, Tex., on brief), for appellants.
James W. Morris, III, Richmond, Va. Richard K. Bennett, Caroline Loudow Lockerby, Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, John M. Oakey, Jr., H. Slayton Dabney, Jr., Margaret G. Seiler, Robert T. Billingsley,Mary Louise Kramer, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, Va., on brief Colin J.S. Thomas, Jr., Bruce C. Phillips, Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, P.C., George W. Wooten, M. OLanier Woodrum, Woodivard, Fox, Wooten & Hart, William B. Poff, Samuel G. Wilson, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, for appellees.
Before WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.
CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, past and present employees of the Lynchburg Foundry, sued twelve corporate defendants that allegedly supplied to the Lynchburg Foundry silica sand or related products used in the casting process at the foundry. Plaintiffs claimed that these defendants had a duty to warn directly the employees of the foundry of the risks and dangers of contracting silicosis by working with products containing silica. The defendants moved for summary judgment on the ground that they had no duty to warn the plaintiffs of these risks
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and dangers because the Lynchburg Foundry has been knowledgeable of the risks and dangers since at least the 1930s. The district court granted defendants' motions, Goodbar v. Whitehead Brothers, 591 F.Supp. 552 (W.D.Va.1984), and plaintiffs appealed. We affirm.All of the parties...
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