Legal Opinion
Estate of Thornton v. Sea Quest, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided April 26, 1999No. 1:97-cv-00232PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LOZANO, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, filed on April 1, 1999. For the reasons set forth below, the Motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.
BACKGROUND
As the Court has explained the details of the incident that spurred this litigation in its previous orders, it will not do so here. After the death of Paul Thornton (“Thornton”) in 1994 while using Defendant’s scuba diving equipment on a vacation in Arkansas, Plaintiffs filed a wrongful death action in the Eastern District of Arkansas claiming breach of warranty, negligence…
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