Flaugher v. Cone Automatic Machine Co.

The instant appeal presents this court with three separate questions. The first is whether either of the appellee corporations falls within a recognized exception to the traditional rule of successor non-liability. Secondly, we are urged to adopt the “product line” theory of liability as espoused in Ray v. Alad Corp., supra. The final question is *62whether appellees had a duty to warn appellant of the alleged defect in the machine which injured her. Our analysis follows.

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The general rule in products liability is that a successor corporation’s amenability to suit will depend on the nature of the…