Hughes v. Buccaneer Wash & Dry Cleaning Center

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

Defendant Buccaneer Wash and Dry and its insurer appeal from a judgment for damages to a child injured by a washing machine at Buccaneer’s place of business. The child’s mother appeals the dismissal of the machine’s manufacturer and its insurer. Liability and quantum are at issue. We affirm.

From the severity of the breaking of the infant’s arm, it is a permissible inference that, rather than merely having fell, he opened defendant Buccaneer’s washing machine and stuck his arm inside while it was spinning fast enough to cause his injury. Compare Shapiro v. City Stores Co.,…