Younger v. Dow Corning Corporation

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

The issue presented by this appeal is whether the manufacturer of a product which is potentially hazardous to health and who gives adequate warning of such potential hazard, by label or otherwise, to its immediate vendee, an industrial user, may be liable in tort to an employee of the vendee for injuries allegedly sustained from such product upon the theory that the manufacturer was negligent in failing to give additional and specific warnings of the product’s potential health hazard to the employee.

The plaintiff in his amended petition…