CAIN v. HANDY CITY, INC.

No. 9686.

367 So.2d 1217 (1979)

Susyn Weil CAIN & Byron M. Cain v. HANDY CITY, INC., Southland Mower Co., Inc., Briggs & Stratton Engine Co., and XYZ Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard J. Hansen, Michael M. Ogden, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees (Handy City, Inc. & CNA Ins. Co.).

Dillon, Cambre & Marshall, David M. Cambre, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee (Southland Mower Co., Inc.).

Before SAMUEL, REDMANN and GULOTTA, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from the dismissal of their claim against a manufacturer1 of a gasoline powered lawnmower, the seller2, and the manufacturer of the lawnmower engine3, for injuries sustained July 29, 1975 when Mrs. Susyn Cain was operating the mower. We affirm.

We are confronted primarily with the burden of proof required by a plaintiff in a products liability...

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