Legal Opinion
Choate v. Champion Home Builders Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2000No. 98-7190, 99-7001PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-Appellants Duane Choate (“Choate”) and Patsy Sue Madewell (“Madewell”) brought this products liability action against DefendanL-Appellee Champion Home Builders Company (“Champion”) and Defendant Heritage Mobile Homes, Inc., d/b/a Siloam Springs Manufactured Home Center (“Heritage”), on the basis of their failure to provide a smoke detector with a battery-powered backup, or failure to warn that the hardwired smoke detector in Duane Choate’s home would not work if there was a loss of power. 1 The parties did not dispute the material facts that the smoke detector…
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