Legal Opinion
Nucor Corp. v. General Electric Co.
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided May 13, 1991No. 89-SC-802-DG, 90-SC-208-DG, 90-SC-209-DGPublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBSON, Justice.
This is a complex case with an even more complex history. On July 13,1977, a warehouse roof at General Electric Company’s Appliance Park in Louisville, Ky., partially collapsed causing substantial damage to the warehouse and numerous appliances stored in the warehouse. In August, less than a month later, another partial roof collapse occurred to the same warehouse resulting in further damage. Both failures occurred because the joist girders, or trusses, manufactured by Nucor Corporation and intended to support the roof, failed to do so. Through an error in the manufacturing…
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