Legal Opinion
Buonanno v. Colmar Belting Co., Inc.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 12, 1999No. 98-21-AppealPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOLDBERG, Justice.
The plaintiff, Americo C. Buonanno, III (Buonanno), brought this products liability case on theories of strict liability and negligence, for injuries received when his arm was crushed in the nip point1 of a convey- or-belt system. In his complaint, Buonan-no alleged that the conveyor-belt system and the wing pulley were defectively designed by the defendants, Emerson Power Transmission Corporation (EPT) and Col-mar Belting Company, Inc. (Colmar), and that both EPT and Colmar failed to warn of the dangerous condition of the wing pulley. The trial justice granted…
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