Sidwell v. William Prym, Inc.

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant, entered following a directed verdict at the conclusion of plaintiff's case in a product liability case. Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in directing a verdict in favor of the defendant, and also erred in excluding certain proffered testimony of plaintiff’s expert witness. We affirm.

Plaintiff Sidwell was wearing a dress, and her mother was using pins to place a hem in the dress. When Sidwell bumped or brushed against a coffee table the impact drove a pin into her knee area with sufficient force to strike the…