Legal Opinion
Bich v. General Electric Co.
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided July 31, 1980No. 3545-0-IIIPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
Defendant, General Electric Company, appeals a verdict in favor of plaintiff, James Bich, for personal injuries. Bich was injured in an explosion while changing a fuse to a potential transformer manufactured by General Electric (GE). Bich sued on the theory of strict liability. We affirm.
On May 10, 1974, James Bich, an electrician at Wells Dam, was notified that a metering device on one of the dam's transformers indicated a malfunction. Bich discovered that a fuse had blown in a GE "potential transformer" (hereinafter referred to as "transformer"). Five of the 15 transformers at Wells Dam…
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