Butaud v. Suburban Marine & Sporting Goods, Inc.

555 P.2d 42 (1976)

James W. BUTAUD, Jr., Appellant,

v.

SUBURBAN MARINE & SPORTING GOODS, INC., Appellee.

No. 2055.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 11, 1976.

Lester W. Miller, Jr., and Timothy M. Lynch, Anchorage, for appellant.

Daniel A. Gerety, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, and RABINOWITZ, ERWIN and BURKE, Justices.

OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

In our previous decision in this case, we reversed the jury's verdict and remanded the case for a new trial. We stated that the issue of the "... effect of the doctrine of comparative negligence on products liability cases ...,"[1] an…