prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 13,616 Travis Lee Lamb, by His Guardian Ad Litem, Stephen E. Shepard v. Sears, Roebuck & Company

MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant, through his guardian ad litem, brought this products liability action against the seller of, an above-ground swimming pool for damages suffered when he nearly drowned after falling into the pool. Appellant alleges that the pool was defectively designed and that it contained inadequate and defective directions and warnings. At the close of evidence, the district court directed a verdict in favor of appellee. We AFFIRM.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In the summer of 1982, Donald Fuller purchased a ten-foot in diameter, twenty-four inch high,…