Legal Opinion
Salvatore J. Sylvestri v. The Warner & Swasey Co., Inc., Salvatore J. Sylvestri v. Comad, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 24, 1968No. 397, 398, Docket 32022, 32023PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Chief Judge:
The Warner & Swasey Co., Inc. and Comad, Inc. appeal from a judgment entered in these consolidated diversity actions after a trial before Judge Mansfield and a jury in the Southern District of New York. The judgment awarded plaintiff, Salvatore J. Sylvestri, $25,000 against both appellants jointly and severally for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when he was thrown from the operator’s seat of a backhoe manufactured by Warner & Swasey and sold by a predecessor of Comad to Sylvestri’s family-owned construction corporation as part of a combined equipment unit. The…
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