Beer v. THE UPJOHN CO.

GERALD M. SMITH, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from the action of the trial court in sustaining defendant’s motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs’ case in this wrongful death action based upon product liability. We affirm.

Joe Beer, the decedent, was forty-three years old in 1987. He was having trouble sleeping and consulted with his family physician on December 9, 1986. The physician prescribed Haleion, a sleeping medication product of defendant. Beer refilled the prescription once. On January 15, 1987, during the night, Beer went outside his residence in his nightclothes and shot…