Legal Opinion
Williams v. Fulmer
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided June 13, 1985PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBSON, Justice.
Phyllis Ann Williams was killed while a passenger on a motorcycle in an accident on July 3, 1977. On June 30, 1978, her estate filed a products liability action alleging Mrs. Williams was killed because her motorcycle helmet was of defective design and manufacture. Defendants were (1) “Arthur J. Fulmer Company, P.O. Box 177, Memphis, Tennessee,” (2) “Vista Kawasaki, Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky,” and (3) “Unknown defendants, unknown addresses.”
The complaint alleged that the Arthur J. Fulmer Company was responsible for “defective design, warning, manufacture, testing and…
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