Legal Opinion
prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,686 Mary Hayes, Administrator of the Estate of Robert Hayes, Jr., and Eric Hayes v. Douglas Dynamics, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 1, 1993No. 92-2374, 93-1033PublishedCited by 238 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FUSTE, District Judge.
Appellants Mary and Eric Hayes appeal from a grant of summary judgment in a negligence and breach of warranty action resulting from a car accident in which Robert Hayes, Jr., the son of Mary and brother of Eric, was killed. The district court held that plaintiffs failed to adduce adequate evidence to show that defendant’s product was the proximate cause of the decedent’s fatal injury. We affirm.
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Background
On January 30, 1988, Robert Hayes, Jr. and his brother Eric were passengers in the rear compartment of a Ford Tempo. Robert, Jr. was sitting in the right rear passenger…
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