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ROY MATSON TRUCK LINES v. MICHELIN TIRE CORP.

No. 48389.

277 N.W.2d 361 (1979)

ROY MATSON TRUCK LINES, INC., Respondent, v. MICHELIN TIRE CORPORATION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faegre & Benson, Martin N. Burke and John H. Hinderaker, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Messerli, Roe, Balogh & Kramer, R. Thomas Roe, and David R. Kracum, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard by SHERAN, C. J., and SCOTT and WAHL, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff brought suit under the theory of strict liability for damages it suffered when a tire on one of its trucks blew out. The Hennepin County District Court, sitting without a jury, found that it was more probable that the tire in question was defective than that plaintiff's driver had misused it by under inflating it and granted judgment for plaintiff. We affirm.

Plaintiff, a trucking firm, purchased the tire in question in 1968...

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