LaCoste v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiff, personal representative of decedent, appeals from judgment for defendant. Ford Motor Company in products liability action. The action seeks to recover damages for the death of Donald LaCoste, plaintiff’s decedent, who died on August 7, 1977, as a result of being pinned between a 1975 Ford pickup truck and a building on decedent’s farm.

No witnesses observed the event which caused the death of plaintiff’s decedent. In the personal representative’s action it is alleged that the death was caused by the truck shifting from park position to reverse after plaintiff’s decedent alighted…