QUICHOCHO v. KELVINATOR CORP.

No. 75-1938.

546 F.2d 812 (1976)

Arlin Perez QUICHOCHO and Antonio Balajadia Quichocho, a minor, by his next friend Arlin Perez Quichocho, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KELVINATOR CORPORATION and M. V. Pangelinan Enterprises, dba Guam Furniture Mart, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Teker (argued), Trapp, Gayle, Teker, Weeks & Friedman, Agana, Guam, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alan E. Dear (argued), Klemm & Dear, Agana, Guam, for defendants-appellees.

Before TRASK, KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.


SAMUEL P. KING, District Judge.

This appeal arises from an action for wrongful death brought by the wife and son of Antonio Balajadia Quichocho. Mr. Quichocho, while a patient in Guam Memorial Hospital, was electrocuted when he touched a metal water pipe while simultaneously touching a window frame which had a powerful electrical current passing through it. The current originated in an air conditioner which had been manufactured by defendant Kelvinator Corporation...

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