Judge Reynier J. Wortendyke, Jr., Ruling on Interrogatories in LeGrande v. Johns-Manville (1958)

A three-page letter of January 2, 1958, from Judge Reynier J. Wortendyke, Jr., of the U.S. District Court in Newark to William L. Brach, Le Grande's attorney, and John J. Monigan, Jr., of Stryker, Tams & Horner, counsel for J-M. After a hearing on December 23, 1957, the judge ruled on J-M's objections to the plaintiff's interrogatories one by one, sustaining many and overruling others. He held that warnings J-M gave its own employees about the hazards of their work were "irrelevant to the issue of whether defendant violated its duty to the plaintiff, who I understand was not its employee."

What it shows

The ruling set the limits of what J-M had to disclose. The judge let questions about J-M's own experiments and studies stand, but struck questions about scientific research, other suppliers, and what J-M told its own workers. J-M's answers, given under this order, are in the interrogatories and answers.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Judge Reynier J. Wortendyke, Jr. (U.S. District Court Judge) letter to William L. Brach (LeGrande's Attorney) and John J. Monigan, Jr. (J-M's Travelers' retained Counsel), 1/2/58, regarding the LeGrande v. J-M Products Corp. case. Letter summarizes judge's rulings on defendant's objections to plaintiff's interrogatories.

Related documents

• LeGrande v. Johns-Manville Products, Plaintiff's Interrogatories and J-M's Answers (1957)

About this copy

This is document 599 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001977 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001979.