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DONLEY v. WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 23629.

234 F.Supp. 869 (1964)

Charles DONLEY, Administrator of the Estate of Carl Edward Donley, a minor, deceased, Plaintiff, v. WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation, and Drake Manufacturing Company, a corporation, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Michigan, S. D.

September 30, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Weinstein, Gussin, Weinstein & Kroll, Detroit, Mich., McMath, Leatherman, Woods & Youngdahl, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff.

Peter Armstrong, F. William Hutchinson, Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson, Grand Rapids, Mich., for Whirlpool Corporation.

W. P. Cooney, Ward, Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt & Peacock, Detroit, Mich., for General Electric Co.

Arthur R. Snell, Stephen C. Bransdorfer, Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey, Grand Rapids, Mich., for Drake Mfg. Co.

FREEMAN, District Judge.

This is an action by the administrator of the estate of Carl Edward Donley, a deceased minor, against Whirlpool Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, for negligence and also for breach of express and implied warranties in the sale of a gas range to the grandfather of the deceased child in Arkansas. The plaintiff alleges that as a result of a faulty lamp and lamp socket in the stove, an electrical current short circuit occurred, which melted...

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