KRUEGER v. TAPPAN CO.

No. 80-2084.

104 Wis.2d 199 (1981)

311 N.W.2d 219

Jon KRUEGER, a minor, by Robert G. Lee, his Guardian ad Litem, Earl H. Krueger, Jr., and Elizabeth A. Krueger, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TAPPAN COMPANY, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Richard J. Phelan and Phelan, Pope & John, Ltd. of Chicago, IL, and H. Robert Kilkelly and Lee, Johnson, Kilkelly & Nichol, S.C., of Madison.

For the defendant-respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Richard A. Hollern, Richard K. Nordeng and Thomas M. Pyper and Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser & Hansen of Madison.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Bablitch, J. and Dykman, J.


GARTZKE, P.J.

This products liability case arises out of a fire in August 1976 in which the plaintiff-appellant, then seven years old, was severely burned.1 Gasoline used to clean a kitchen floor was ignited, according to plaintiff, by a 1970 model Tappan gas range, which is claimed to have been defective. The trial court dismissed the complaint following a verdict finding that the range was...

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