Jacobs v. Lakewood Aircraft Service, Inc.

OPINION

LORD, Chief Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

In this products liability case, defendant Flight Extenders, Inc., a California corporation (“the California Corporation”), seeks summary judgment. Its motion implicates two developing theories: the liability of a successor corporation for torts committed by its predecessor corporation, see Woody v. Combustion Engineering, Inc., 463 F.Supp. 817, 820 (E.D.Tenn.1978); and the liability of a successor corporation for breach of its duty to warn of recently discovered defects in its predecessor’s products, see Wilson v. Fare Well Corp., 140…