Legal Opinion
Brown v. Overhead Door Corp.
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
Decided January 21, 1994No. Civ. No. 93-5210PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
H. FRANKLIN WATERS, Chief Judge.
This products liability action was filed in the Eastern District of Oklahoma on June 17, 1993. The court’s jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332. The complaint alleges that on June 1, 1992, Dennis Brown, Jr., then two years old, was trapped under a garage door at a residence located in Washington County, Arkansas. The garage door in question was operated by an automatic garage door opener manufactured by the defendant. The opener was installed on April 27,1982, during or near the completion of the construction of…
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