CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. v. BECK

Nos. 5350, 5351.

624 P.2d 790 (1981)

CATERPILLAR TRACTOR COMPANY, Petitioner & Cross-Respondent, v. Paula BECK, Administratrix of the Estate of Derald Allen Beck, Respondent & Cross-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd I. Hoppner, Rice, Hoppner, Ingraham & Brown, Fairbanks, for petitioner & cross-respondent.

James A. Parrish, Parrish Law Office, Fairbanks, Theodore R. Dunn, Anchorage, for respondent & cross-petitioner.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR and BURKE, JJ.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

These petitions for review raise various issues in a products liability case that has been before this court previously on appeal1 and on an earlier petition.2 The original trial in this case resulted in a jury verdict for the plaintiff. The case arose from an accident in which the driver of a Caterpillar-manufactured front-end loader was killed when the loader rolled over...

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