Legal Opinion
David Mello and Phyllis Mello v. K-Mart Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 1986No. 85-1614PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
In this products liability action applying Tennessee law, plaintiffs-appellants David and Phyllis Mello appeal from judgments entered in favor of defendants-appellees K-Mart Corporation and Shinn Fu of America, Inc., in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. We affirm.
The evidence introduced at the jury trial tended to show the following. On or about November 7, 1982, while vacationing with his family, David Mello purchased a “ElMart” brand hydraulic jack with a stated lifting capacity of six tons from a K-Mart store in…
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