Legal Opinion
Island Creek Coal Company Garden Creek Pocahontas Company v. Lake Shore, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 27, 1987No. 86-1172PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.
In this diversity action, the plaintiffs, operators of coal mines, have sued the defendant, a manufacturer of mining machinery, to recover direct property damages, and consequential damages resulting from the breakdown of machinery purchased by the plaintiffs of the defendant. They ground their action on breach of warranty and on negligence. In its answer to the plaintiffs' complaint, the defendant pled, among other defenses, immunity from liability for consequential damages under an express exclusion of such recovery. On *276April 23, 1986, about a month before…
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