Legal Opinion
Downs v. Gulf & Western Manufacturing Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 27, 1987No. Civ. A. 81-1386-GPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING A NEW TRIAL
GARRITY, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Elizabeth Downs, worked for a time as a punch press operator. She brought suit against the defendant, Gulf & Western Mfg. Co., after one of her hands was inadvertently caught and severely damaged in a press’s powerful stroking mechanism. She sustained the injury in 1980 while operating a press made in 1944 by E.W. Bliss Co., formerly a separate entity and now a division of the defendant. She claims that her injury resulted, first, from defendant’s negligent design, manufacture, and sale of the press without proper…
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