EDWARDS v. HONEYWELL, INC.

No. 94-2346.

50 F.3d 484 (1995)

Debra Jo EDWARDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HONEYWELL, INCORPORATED, and Honeywell Protection Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1995.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Scott Montross (argued), Townsend, Hovde & Montross, Indianapolis, IN, David W. Stone, IV, Anderson, IN, Thomas A. Hendrickson, Indianapolis, IN, for plaintiff-appellant Debra Jo Edwards.

Thomas J. Campbell (argued), Thomas R. Schultz, Locke, Reynolds, Boyd & Weisell, Indianapolis, IN, for defendants-appellees Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell Protection Services.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A fireman's widow has sued Honeywell, the provider of an alarm system intended to protect the house where her husband was killed in the line of duty. The suit, filed in an Indiana state court, charges that David John Edwards died because of Honeywell's negligence in failing to call the fire department promptly upon receiving a signal from the alarm. As a result of the delay, the floor of the burning house...

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