Legal Opinion
Vandelune v. 4B Elevator Components Unlimited
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 30, 1998No. 97-2510PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Mark Vandelune was seriously injured in a grain dust explosion while working at the Consolidated Cooperative Grain Elevator (“Consolidated”) in Gowrie, Iowa. Contending that a faulty M700 Speedswitch Monitor proximately caused the explosion and injury, Vandelune commenced this product liability suit against Synatel Instrumentation Ltd. (“Synatel”), the British manufacturer of the M700, and 4B Elevator Components Ltd. (“4B”), its independent distributor. Vande-lune’s wife and two children also sued, claiming loss of consortium. The district court granted 4B’s…
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