Magic Chef, Inc. v. Sibley

BARROW, Chief Justice.

Appellant has perfected its appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict whereby appellee, Anita Sibley, individually and as next friend of her minor daughter, Sandra Jo Shifflett, recovered damages for injuries sustained by the minor as the result of a defectively designed range manufactured by appellant.

The jury found that the gas range, which was located in the apartment occupied by appellee’s baby-sitter on February 9, 1967, was defectively designed at the time it was sold to the owner of the apartment complex and that this defective design was a producing cause…