Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Kuwahara Co., Ltd.
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided July 14, 1989No. G87-66 CA6PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HILLMAN, Chief Judge.
This is a diversity products liability action removed from Muskegon County Circuit Court and controlled by Michigan law. On June 26, 1985, plaintiff Peggy Wilson’s husband Milburn was killed in an accident allegedly caused by a defective bicycle wheel. Defendant and cross-plaintiff Ku-wahara Company, Ltd., a Japanese firm, designed and assembled the bicycle at issue, using a wheel assembly designed and manufactured by another Japanese concern, defendant and cross-defendant Yan-agihara Kogyo Company, Ltd. Yanagihara sold the wheel in Japan to a Japanese distributor,…
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