FREDERICKS v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Docket No. 62960, (Calendar No. 3).

411 Mich. 712 (1981)

311 N.W.2d 725

FREDERICKS v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCroskey, Libner, VanLeuven, Kortering, Cochrane & Brock for plaintiff.

Cholette, Perkins & Buchanan (by Grant J. Gruel and Charles H. Worsfold); Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C. (by James R. Kohl), and Otis Smith, General Counsel (Joseph M. Rozek, of counsel), for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Dickinson, Wright, McKean, Cudlip & Moon (by John E.S. Scott and Richard A. Glaser) for Michigan Defense Trial Counsel.

Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider & Simpson (by Nicholas J. Rine) and Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by Joan Lovell) for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.


KAVANAGH, J. (for affirmance).

The plaintiff was an employee of Manistee Drop Forge Company when he lost the major part of his left hand while operating an unguarded power press during the course of his employment. He sued to recover damages from the defendant who owned the die set being used in the press at the time of the accident.

The dies themselves were not manufactured by the defendant, but had been built by Lindell Drop Forge and were used by...

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