Legal Opinion
Gantes v. Kason Corp.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 23, 1996PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
HANDLER, J.
In this case, a young woman, working in a chicken processing plant in Georgia, was killed when struck in the head by a moving part of a machine. The machine had been manufactured more than thirteen years before the fatal accident by a New Jersey corporation with its principal place of business in Linden, New Jersey.
Representatives of the decedent, asserting that the machine was defective, brought this personal-injury action based on claims of survivorship and wrongful-death against the New Jersey manufac*482turer in the Law Division in Union…
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