Legal Opinion
Laura Hollister, American Community Mutual Insurance Company, Intervenor v. Dayton Hudson Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 2, 2000No. 98-1660PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Laura Hollister, a citizen of Michigan, was severely burned when the shirt that she was wearing ignited upon contact with a hot electric burner on her apartment stove. 1 She brought a lawsuit against Dayton Hudson Corporation, the Minnesota-based owner of the department store where the shirt was purchased, alleging negligence and breach of the store’s implied warranty of merchantability. Her claims were based on allegations that (1) the shirt’s design rendered it unreasonably dangerous, and (2) the shirt failed to carry a warning as to its extreme…
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