Legal Opinion
Debra Jo Edwards v. Honeywell, Incorporated, and Honeywell Protection Services
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 11, 1995No. 94-2346PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A fireman’s widow has sued Honeywell, the provider of an alarm system intended to protect the house where her husband was killed in the line of duty. The suit, filed in an Indiana state court, charges that David John Edwards died because of Honeywell’s negligence in failing to call the fire department promptly upon receiving a signal from the alarm. As a result of the delay, the floor of the burning house was in a severely weakened condition by the time the firemen entered, and it collapsed beneath Edwards, plunging him to his death. The district court, to which the suit…
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