Salvi v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Frank J. Salvi, Jr., instituted this action seeking damages from defendants Montgomery Ward & Company, Incorporated (Wards), and The Coleman Company, Inc. (Coleman), for an eye injury he sustained in an accident involving an air gun sold by Wards and manufactured by Coleman. In his amended complaint, Frank alleges that Wards was negligent in selling a Coleman air gun to John Salvi, Frank’s 14-year-old brother, and that such negligence proximately caused his injury. In addition, Frank claims that the Coleman air gun was…