BURGESS v. MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY

No. 6016.

264 F.2d 495 (1959)

Phillip BURGESS, Appellant, v. MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

February 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Carson and J. W. Mahoney, Kansas City, Kan. (John K. Dear and Ernest N. Yarnevich, Kansas City, Kan., were with them on the brief), for appellant.

Blake A. Williamson, Kansas City, Kan. (James K. Cubbison, Lee Vaughan, Donald A. Hardy and A. C. Cooke, Kansas City, Kan., were with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before HUXMAN, MURRAH and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

The question in this diversity action is whether a retail vendor of a chattel manufactured by another is liable for injuries to a borrower of the chattel from the purchaser when such injuries result from the failure of the chattel because of a latent defect.

Appellee-defendant, Montgomery Ward and Company, Inc., at its Kansas City, Kansas, retail store sold to one Verbanic a 16-foot extension...

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