Owens v. Allis-Chalmers Corp.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a directed verdict granted to defendant at the conclusion of plaintiffs proofs. On a theory of products liability, plaintiff sought recovery for the *77death of her husband, who was killed when the forklift truck he was operating for his employer overturned, crushing his skull with the overhead, protective guard.

No one witnessed the occurrence. Decedent reported to his job and was instructed to drive a forklift to another plant on his employer’s property. Moments after he left, other employees, in route over the same roadway to the same location, discovered…