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SPEARING v. NATIONAL IRON CO.

No. 84-1464.

770 F.2d 87 (1985)

William N. SPEARING and Trudy Spearing, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NATIONAL IRON COMPANY, Pettibone Corporation, and Pettibone International Sales Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Schroeder, Sommer, Olk & Schroeder, Rhinelander, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas A. Lockyear, Bell, Metzner & Gierhart, S.C., Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by the plaintiffs in a products liability suit brought in federal court under the diversity jurisdiction raises questions of Canadian law and of Wisconsin tort and conflicts law. Mr. Spearing, a citizen of Canada, was employed by a Canadian company that is not a party to this suit to transport a truck-crane from Duluth, Minnesota to New York. The tractor and carrier of the truck-crane had been made in Canada by the Canadian subsidiary...

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