United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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No. 98-3169
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Marion L. Harder, Executor of the
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Estate of Oscar O. Harder; Marion L.
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Harder, Individually,
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Plaintiffs-Appellees,
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v.
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Acands, doing business as A C & S,
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Inc., a Delaware corporation formerly
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Armstrong Contracting & Supply, Inc.;
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Armstrong World Industries, doing
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business as A C & S, Inc., a
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Pennsylvania corporation individually
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Appeal from the United States
and as successor in interest to
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District Court for the Northern
Armstrong Cork Company, and as
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District of Iowa.
successor in interest to Armstrong
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Contracting & Supply, Inc., now known *
as Acands, Inc.; Fibreboard, a
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Delaware corporation, individually and *
as successor in interest to Fibreboard
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Paper Products Corp., Pabco Insulation *
Company, Plant Rubber & Asbestos
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Works and Plant Asbestos Co.;
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Flexitallic Gasket Company, Inc., a
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Delaware Corp.; Foster Wheeler
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Corporation; Foster Wheeler
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Corporation, a New York Corporation;
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Foster Wheeler Corporation, a
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Delaware Corporation, individually and *
as a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler
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Corporation;
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Defendants,
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General Electric Co., a New York
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Corporation;
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Defendant-Appellant,
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GAF Corporation, a Delaware Corp.,
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individually and as successor in interest *
to the Ruberoid Company; A P Green
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Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corp.;
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Keene Corporation, a Delaware and
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New York Corp., individually and as
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successor in interest to Baldwin-Hill
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Co., Baldwin-Ehret-Hill, Inc., Ehret
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Magnesia Manufacturing Co., the
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Insulation division of Mundet Cork
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Co., and as owner of or successor in
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interest to Keene Building Products
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Corp.; Owens-Corning Corporation, a
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Delaware Corp.; Owens-Illinois, Inc., a *
Delaware and an Ohio Corp.; United
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States Gypsum Company, formerly
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known as A P Green Refractories
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Company, a Delaware Corporation,
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individually and as successor in interest *
to A P Greene Industries, Inc.,
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Defendants,
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v.