Graham v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

This is a product liability case in which plaintiffs claim damages for injuries caused by an "RH5°” automobile wheel assembly, manufactured by defendant Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, which exploded while plaintiff David Graham was inflating a flat tire. In a previous decision, this Court remanded to the circuit court for trial on plaintiffs’ theory that defendant breached its duty to warn of the dangers involved in inflating a tire which had been run while flat. Graham v Ryerson, 96 Mich App 480; 292 NW2d 704 (1980), lv den 410 Mich 858 (1980). After the trial pursuant to this Court’s…