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JOHNSON v. HUSKY INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 75-2219.

536 F.2d 645 (1976)

Mrs. J. D. JOHNSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HUSKY INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. R. Coleman, Jr., Milligan, Coleman, Fletcher & Gaby, Greeneville, Tenn., Jerry J. Phillips, Univ. of Tenn., College of Law, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant-appellant.

Charles R. Terry, Morristown, Tenn., Edward M. Swartz, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WEICK and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges, and GREEN, Senior District Judge.

BEN C. GREEN, Senior District Judge.

On November 8, 1972 the four members of the Clyne Robinson family, being Mr. Robinson (age 32), his wife, Edna Faye (age 28), and their two children, Robin (age 10) and Terry (age 8), died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation as a consequence of burning ten pounds of charcoal briquets for heating purposes inside a closed house. Two empty five-pound bags of charcoal manufactured by defendant-appellant, Husky Industries, Inc., were...

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