Legal Opinion
Florio v. Powder Power Tool Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 1957No. 12127PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Chief Judge.
The suit at bar, based on diversity and jurisdictional amount, was brought by the minor plaintiff, Mario Florio, by his parents as his next friends, against the appellee Powder Power Tool Corp. (Powder Power), an Oregon corporation. On December 4, 1954 Florio, while employed as a carpenter on a construction project, was seriously injured when a tool powered by powder, manufactured by Powder Power, used by one of Florio’s fellow workers, misfired, causing a steel stud to ricochet from a steel beam and imbed itself in Florio’s brain. Florio in his complaint alleges that…
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