Legal Opinion
Gates Rubber Company v. USM Corporation
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided November 27, 1972No. Civ. A. P-3240PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDERS ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ROBERT D. MORGAN, District Judge.
This action seeks damages allegedly sustained by plaintiff as a result of the failure of the base of a lead extrusion press manufactured and sold to plaintiff by Farrel-Birmingham Company, Inc. The latter is now an operating division of defendant, USM Corporation. 1
The press was delivered to, and installed in plaintiff’s plant at Galesburg, Illinois, in the early part of the year 1964. It was used by plaintiff in the process of manufacturing high-pressure, commercial rubber hose. Suffice it to state, for…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Boudreau v. BaughmanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1988
- The Gates Rubber Company, a Corporation v. Usm Corporation, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1975
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