Hickman v. Grover

BROTHERTON, Justice:

This is a certified question from the Circuit Court of Wood County in a products liability case. The facts are not in controversy and are stipulated.

On December 20, 1982, Richard L. Hickman was working at National Muffler Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia, when Francis J. Grover arrived at the station to fill a small, portable air tank manufactured by the third-party defendant, Electro-Magic, Inc. Grover attached the tank to the air line at the muffler shop and started filling the tank. Both Hickman and Grover assumed that the tank would fill until the pressure switch…