Dean v. Handy & Harman

MEMORANDUM

CALDWELL, District Judge.

I. Introduction.

This is a diversity action controlled by Pennsylvania law which the defendant, Caterpillar, Inc., removed here with the concurrence of the other defendants.

The plaintiffs, Robert Dean, Robert G. Glassmyer, Kenneth Hite, Jr., George Leathery, Jr., Van D. Poff, John Noll, and Melvin H. Weekley, are workers or former workers at the plant Caterpillar operated in York, Pennsylvania. They sued Caterpillar and three other defendants, Handy & Harman, Lucas-Milhaupt, Inc., and Englehard Corp., in state court, alleging that they were seriously injured…