Martin v. the Studebaker Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The plaintiff was injured, and his son, of whom he is administrator, was killed by reason of the collapse of a wheel on a motor car manufactured by the defendant-respondent, in which car plaintiff-appellant and his son were riding. The two claims were combined in one suit, based on alleged negligence in construction of the automobile. At the trial it appeared that the defendant did not itself make the wheels, but purchased them of -a well-known concern in good standing, patronized also by a number of other makers of so-called standard cars;…