Legal Opinion
Chicago Hardware & Fixture Co. v. Letterman
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 12, 1999No. A98A1753PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Presiding Judge.
Ronald Letterman was standing on an Amacker Timb-R-Lock tree stand when a portion of it broke. He fell and sustained injuries. He and his wife sued Amacker International, Inc., the manufacturer, seeking actual and punitive damages for personal injuries and loss of consortium on theories of strict products liability, negligence, and breach of warranty.
Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company was added as a defendant based on allegations that failure of the tree stand was caused by the unfitness of a component, a turnbuckle, sold to Amacker by Chicago. Chicago moved for…
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