Dougherty v. Hooker Chemical Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, as administratrix, brought this diversity action against Hooker ..Chemical Corporation, a manufacturer of trichloroethylene (hereinafter called “TRI”). She al*176leged, among other things, that Hooker failed to give adequate warnings of the dangers and fatal properties of TRI, and as a result, her husband by working with TRI sustained injuries which eventually led to his death. At the close of the plaintiff’s case, which had been limited solely to the adequacy of the warnings given by Hooker, the district court granted Hooker’s motion for a…