Elbie Mozingo, Cross-Appellee v. Correct Manufacturing Corporation and G.W. Way, Correct Manufacturing Corporation, Cross-Appellant

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

On July 19, 1977, Elbie Mozingo was testing the operation of a Skyworker brand “cherrypicker” (a device similar to a crane with a bucket on the end of the boom), after completing repairs on it at a shop in Laurel, Mississippi. When Mozingo, who was in the bucket, moved the bucket on the Skyworker rapidly about, the boom on the unit suddenly collapsed, precipitating the bucket and Mozingo to the ground and seriously injuring Mozingo. Two opposed systems of cables operated by a hydraulic unit raise and lower the boom. The apparent cause of the collapse was that a…