Maloney v. American Pharmaceutical Co.
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOLMDAHL, J.
This case presents a question of successor liability of a corporation for injuries allegedly caused by a prescription drug manufactured by a predecessor corporation, now defunct. We conclude that successor liability does not attach, and we affirm a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant corporation.
Statement of Facts
Declarations and deposition transcripts filed in the case at bar reveal the following uncontroverted facts. In 1950, while Mary Maloney was a fetus developing in Grace Beckley’s womb, Grace Beckley took a prescription drug, stilbestrol, also known as…
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