Legal Opinion
Ard v. Jensen
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided June 24, 1999No. WD 56041PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.
Robert Leroy Ard appeals the circuit court’s granting summary judgment in favor of The Brunswick Corporation and Glastron, Inc., on the ground that federal law preempted Ard’s lawsuit regarding propeller guards. Ard suffered injuries on May 29,1988, when a motorboat, driven by James Donald Jensen, 1 backed over him while he was in the water preparing to ski. Ard sued Brunswick and Glastron, alleging that a Brunswick motor and a Glastron boat were defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous because Brunswick and Glastron did not install a propeller guard on the…
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