Brown v. Kleen Kut Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Herd, J.:

This is an action for strict liability in tort for the manufacture and sale of an allegedly defective product. This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the appellees, Toledo Scale Corporation, Reliance Electric and Engineering Company, Reliance Electric Company and Kleen Kut Manufacturing Company, defendants below.

The facts are not in dispute.

The accident giving rise to this action occurred in the summer of 1976. The appellant, who was sixteen years old at the time, was employed as a part-time cook in a…