Michelin Tire Corp. v. Roose

DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellant, Michelin Tire Corporation, a New York corporation, timely appeals from a final judgment entered against it pursuant to a jury verdict, which found that a tire allegedly manufactured by appellant was defective and a legal cause of the death of Brian E. Roose, the husband of appellee, Susan A. Roose. The jury awarded $1,000,000 in damages, but found that appellant was forty percent negligent and the deceased was sixty percent negligent.

Briefly, the accident in this case occurred after the decedent, a passenger, and two of his friends were driving over 100 miles per hour…