BUTAUD v. SUBURBAN MARINE & SPORTING GOODS, INC.

No. 2055.

543 P.2d 209 (1975)

James W. BUTAUD, Jr., Appellant, v. SUBURBAN MARINE & SPORTING GOODS, INC., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester W. Miller, Jr., and Timothy M. Lynch, of Abbott, Lynch & Farney, Anchorage, for appellant.

Daniel A. Gerety, of Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Inc., Anchorage, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and ERWIN, BOOCHEVER, and BURKE, JJ.


OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

This is a products liability case. The appellant purchased a new Ski-Doo 320 Olympic snow machine from Suburban in October, 1968. On February 5, 1970, while riding the snow machine, the appellant was injured. The appellant brought an action alleging that the blindness in his left eye was caused from pieces of a defective pulley guard which had shattered when struck by either a broken drive belt or debris kicked up by it.

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