Rothie Louise Harris v. Pacific Floor MacHine Manufacturing Company, a Corporation

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity action brought under Arkansas law on theories of negligence and products liability. Rothie Louise Harris was injured while using gasoline along with a floor buffer made by Pacific Floor Machine Manufacturing Company to strip paint off of a floor in a bathroom in the elementary school in Cedarville, Arkansas. After several gallons of gasoline had been poured on the floor, Harris started the buffer, creating a spark in its electric motor, which ignited the gasoline fumes and caused an explosion and fire in which she suffered severe bums over 40 per…