Laughter v. Southern Pump & Tank Co.

WHICHARD, Judge.

This action arises out of an accident involving a fire truck which occurred on Terry’s Gap Road in Henderson County. On 3 November 1978 plaintiff, a volunteer fireman, responded to a fire alarm in the department’s truck, a 1972 or 1973 model Chevrolet on the chassis of which was welded a 2,000 gallon water tank. Defendant sold and mounted the tank. The truck rolled down a hill and plaintiff was thrown from the cab, sustaining injuries. Plaintiff contends in his complaint that due to defendant’s faulty welding “the water tank suddenly broke loose from the truck chassis on the…