Legal Opinion
prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,231 Dale Walker and Liana Walker v. General Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1992No. 91-2081PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FUSTE, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Dale and Liana Walker commenced this action in the Superior Court of Maine against General Electric Company (“GE” or “General Electric”), alleging various causes of action sounding in tort, 1 all of which were based on a claimed malfunction of a GE-manufactured toaster-oven. Plaintiffs alleged that the toaster-oven’s malfunction was due to a defect in its design or manufacture and that this defect was the proximate cause of a fire which destroyed the Walker family residence. Defendant General Electric removed the case to the United States District Court for…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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