Larrison v. Moving Floors, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendant. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Defendant Moving Floors, Inc. (MFI) manufactures “live floor” systems for truck trailers. Those systems enable the hydraulic loading and unloading of materials hauled in the trailers. Peerless Corporation (Peerless) manufactures and sells truck trailers. On various occasions over a four-year period, it purchased MFI live floor systems and installed them in truck trailers that it sold to the general public. During those four years, Peerless representatives visited the MFI plant and…