Cartwright v. Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc.

BOX, Presiding Judge:

An appeal by Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. (Atlas), defendant in the trial court, from a manufacturers’ product liability case. Plaintiffs-appellees are the co-administrators of the estate of Ira L. Lauderdale, deceased, who brought a survival cause of action for the benefit of the estate seeking damages for pain and suffering and reimbursement for medical expenditures and a wrongful death action for the pecuniary loss suffered by the beneficiaries by reason of the death of decedent. The beneficiaries consist of the widow and two adult daughters.

Decedent was a sixty-one…