Legal Opinion
Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 31, 1979PublishedCited by 350 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
SCHREIBER, J.
This products liability case projects for our consideration the impact of the Comparative Negligence Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.1 to 5.3, in strict liability actions.
*154Plaintiff Frank Suter sought monetary damages for injuries sustained when his hand was caught in the cylinders of an industrial sheet metal rolling machine. At the time, Suter was employed by, as well as part owner of, Accurate Sheet Metal, Inc., a small industrial fabricator of sheet metal products, consisting primarily of ducts for heating and air conditioning. Suter charged…
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