Legal Opinion
Cox v. Stoughton Trailers, Inc.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided November 30, 2005No. 73A04-0504-CV-226PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BARNES, Judge.
Case Summary
Cynthia Cox ("Cox"), as administrator of the Estate of William Cox ("William"), appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Stoughton Trailers, Inc. We affirm.
Issue
The restated issue before us is whether the trial court properly concluded that Stoughton owed no duty to William to maintain the safety of a trailer that it had manufactured and that caused William's death.
Facts
Stoughton, located in Wisconsin, manufactured the trailer at issue in this case in 1996 and leased it to Silliman Trucking, located in Florida, later that year. In June…
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