Legal Opinion
Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 11, 2008PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSilver, J.
[¶ 1] This case was certified from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit pursuant to Rule 25 of the Maine Rules of Appellate Procedure, as authorized by 4 M.R.S. § 57 (2007), with two questions of state law for our review. Crown Equipment Corporation appealed from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Maine (Cohen, Mag.) after a jury found that it failed to warn an owner of a product manufactured by Crown of the dangers presented by that product, and awarded damages to Claire Brown. Crown contends that the court erred in instructing the…
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