Jones v. Stemco Manufacturing Co.

SIMMS, Justice:

This is an appeal from a jury verdict for the defendants in a manufacturers’ product liability action. Plaintiff (appellant) claims the trial court erred by admitting the results of an inadmissible and prejudicial out-of-court experiment, and by using the word “fault” in the instructions to the jury.

Plaintiff brought her action for the wrongful death of her husband. On the evening of February 1,1975, plaintiff’s husband was driving a loaded tractor-trailer truck owned by American Farm Lines west on Interstate 40. He was following a similar truck (No. 2032) owned by the same…