Legal Opinion
Mrs. Katrina Pavlides v. Galveston Yacht Basin, Inc., Amf Slickcraft Boat Division, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 8, 1984No. 83-2003PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
On a February Sunday in 1976, Sam Pav-lides and four of his chums set out on a fishing trip in Pavlides’ Robalo 236 motorboat. Four of them, including Pavlides, never returned: they died while attempting to swim to safety from their swamped boat. The fifth, Anthony Moustakelis, made it to an adjacent oil rig.
On this appeal, the decedents’ estates challenge the trial court’s conclusion that the manufacturer of the boat, AMF Slick-craft Boat Division, Inc. (AMF) was not strictly liable for defects in design, manufacture or marketing. 1 We conclude that the trial court applied…
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3Cited by71 opinions
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- James Leroy Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corporation and Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,013 Mary Kathryn Thomas v. Hoffman-Laroche, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
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