Nugent v. Utica Cutlery Co.

OPINION

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment entered against appellant, Jack C. Nugent, in a products liability case involving an allegedly defective knife.1 Appellant sought to establish that the manufacturer, Utica Cutlery Company, and the seller, Mathias Klein & Sons, Inc. (appellees herein), were liable for either a manufacturing defect or a failure to warn. In answer to appellant’s liability issues, the jury failed to find that the knife was defective or that appellees breached a duty to warn.

Appellant had been performing electrician-type work for…