Shelden v. Hample Equipment Co.

Appeals (1) from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiff, entered July 31,1981 in Chemung County, upon a verdict rendered at Trial Term (Swartwood, J.), and (2) from an order of said court, entered July 30,1981 in Chemung County, which denied defendants’ motion to set aside the verdict. Plaintiff commenced this strict products liability action to recover damages for burns she sustained when the bottom fell out of a glass coffee pot she was carrying while working at a restaurant. She had purchased the coffee pot two months earlier from defendant Hample Equipment Company. Because…