Legal Opinion
Marion L. Harder v. General Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 9, 1999No. 98-3169PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
In this diversity case, we must decide whether Iowa’s statute of repose for improvements to real property bars an action for injury allegedly caused by a component of an improvement to real property. We conclude that it does.
As long as seventy years ago, steam turbines manufactured by General Electric Co. (GE) were permanently installed in certain Iowa power plants to generate electricity. The one-hundred-ton turbines are sunk in concrete foundations and connected to other power equipment with miles of complex piping and wiring. As components of each steam turbine, GE…
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