prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 11,472 Frank A. Beard and Edith F. Beard v. J.I. Case Company, a Delaware Corporation, and Tenneco, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Frank Beard, a Tennessee farmer, was seriously injured when he became entangled in the rollers of a cornpicker manufactured by the defendant. Six months after the accident, Beard and his wife filed this products liability action in federal district court in Wisconsin. The court held that a Wisconsin court would apply the Tennessee Products Liability Act — including its period of repose, which bars any action for a personal injury caused by a product that was sold by the manufacturer more than ten years before the filing of the action. Applying Tennessee law, the court…