ILIFF v. AMERICAN FIRE APPARATUS COMPANY, INC.

No. 8020.

277 F.2d 360 (1960)

Donald J. ILIFF, Appellant, v. AMERICAN FIRE APPARATUS COMPANY, INC., and American Fire Pump Company, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norbert J. Heubusch, Washington, D. C., (Andrew B. Ferrari, Arlington, Va., on the brief) for appellant.

Fred C. Alexander, Jr., and E. Waller Dudley, Alexandria, Va., (Boothe, Dudley, Koontz & Boothe, Alexandria, Va., on the brief) for appellees.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by a volunteer fireman who was injured in fighting a fire in Fairfax County, Virginia, when a portion of the equipment mounted on a fire truck which he was using blew out and struck him with great force and violence. The fire truck and the apparatus had been sold to the Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department by the American Fire Apparatus Company, a Michigan corporation, one of the defendants, and the charge is that it had been...

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