Westric Battery Company, a Colorado Corporation v. Standard Electric Company, Inc., a Texas Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.
This is a products liability case in which the plaintiff Westric Battery Company recovered a judgment based on a jury award in the amount of $472,067.28 from Standard Electric Company, Inc. Liability theories em ployed at the trial were breach of warranty (express and implied), negligence and strict liability. In seeking reversal the appellant stresses the proposition that strict liability was not applicable since the case was not a personal injury one but, rather, was one in which the plaintiff’s losses were strictly property or business losses resulting from…
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