DE PREE v. NUTONE, INC.

No. 19091.

422 F.2d 534 (1970)

Stanley DE PREE and Winifred De Pree, Plaintiffs-Appellees. v. NUTONE, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 26, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Blackwell, Grand Rapids, Mich., for appellant; Smith, Haughey & Rice, Grand Rapids, Mich., on brief.

Peter Armstrong, Grand Rapids, Mich., for appellees; Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson, Grand Rapids, Mich., on brief.

Before WEICK and McCREE, Circuit Judges, and McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.


McCREE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered by the court, sitting without a jury, awarding damages of $25,000 to Mrs. Winifred DePree for the loss of part of her right index finger and $3,000 to her husband, Stanley DePree, for loss of consortium. The injury occurred when Mrs. DePree used her finger to try to remove some partially ground chicken from the bottom of the cutter plate of a vertical meat grinder operated by a counter-sunk electric...

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