Crusan v. Aluminum Company of America

FISHER, District Judge.

This is a products liability suit (pie pan) brought by the Plaintiff for damages sustained by his wife.

The undisputed facts are rather simple. The question is whether the law can be interpreted so as to permit recovery by the Plaintiff under the facts.

Mrs. Crusan, a wheel-chair invalid, baked an apple pie the first week in October of 1963 in an aluminum foil pie pan manufactured and sold by the Defendant. While Mrs. Crusan was in the process of removing the pie pan from the oven, holding the pan by the lip or sides with both hands, the pan collapsed by folding together…