DUNN v. PATTERSON DENTAL CO.

No. 8614.

578 S.W.2d 428 (1979)

Frank Jerome DUNN, Jr., Appellant, v. PATTERSON DENTAL CO. et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gayle E. Oler, Oler & Hoffman, Dallas, for appellant.

John H. Martin, Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion, Dallas, for Fraser-Sweatman.

R. Chris Harvey, James K. Peden, III, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, for Patterson Dental.

C. Edward Fowler, Jr., Bailey, Williams, Westfall, Lee & Fowler, Dallas, for Puritan-Bennett & Medicall.

James S. Maxwell, Charles L. Perry, Seay, Gwinn, Crawford, Mebus & Blakeney, Dallas, for Western Enterprises.


CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is a products liability case in which appellant, a dentist, sought damages for personal injuries he received when a piece of his office equipment exploded. The defendants, appellees here, were the seller of the equipment (Patterson Dental Company), the assembler (Frazier-Sweatmen Company), the manufacturer of a component part (Western Enterprises, Inc.), and the company which serviced the equipment and had recently changed the oxygen...

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