Gunderson v. Sani-Kem Corp.

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff was injured on January 11, 1980, when he got his hands caught in a continuous conveyor system which was used by the Fairmont Foods Corporation to convey dairy products, which were unloaded from trucks, into its plant at 3805 Van Brunt Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. Plaintiff’s theory was that lubrication equipment, installed by defendant upon the existing conveyor system, was in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous when put to a reasonably anticipated use, an action in strict liability in tort. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the…