HECKEL v. AMERICAN COUPLING CORP.

Calendar No. 28, Docket No. 52,504.

384 Mich. 19 (1970)

179 N.W.2d 381

HECKEL v. AMERICAN COUPLING CORPORATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied November 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dann, Rosenbaum, Bloom & Kaufman (by John Safran), for plaintiffs.

Robert E. Fox, for defendant.


DETHMERS, J.

This is a products liability case.

Defendant manufactured and sold a hose and coupling to plaintiff's employer for use in the transmission of gaseous oxygen. While plaintiff was delivering a truck-load of gaseous oxygen to one of his employer's customers, the hose and coupling, through which the gas was being transmitted from the truck into the customer's receiving tank, exploded, causing plaintiff great physical injury.

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