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WYANT v. J. I. CASE CO., INC.

No. 80-1553.

633 F.2d 1254 (1980)

John J. WYANT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. J. I. CASE COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Boman, East St. Louis, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

William D. Hanagan, Mount Vernon, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL, BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a diversity action instituted by plaintiff-appellee for personal injuries sustained while operating the Case 450 tractor-crawler. A jury verdict determined that under Illinois products liability law, the tractor was unreasonably dangerous by reason of a design defect, the lack of a parking gear, and that this defect was the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries. On appeal, the defendant-appellant...

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