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PAGE v. GULF OIL CO.

No. 86-3645 Summary Calendar.

812 F.2d 249 (1987)

Sidney PAGE, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Intervenor-Appellant, v. GULF OIL COMPANY, et al., Defendants, Joy Manufacturing Company, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Weigand, Jr., Houma, La., for Page.

Kenny M. Charbonnet, Jefferson, La., for Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

John J. Cooper, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, REAVLEY, and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

As Mr. Rhynes would have had us do for Texas1, Mr. Page would have us adopt for Louisiana the so-called "product line" theory of liability followed in a very few jurisdictions: that a successor business entity, not otherwise at fault, which continues to manufacture a line of products of an acquired business assumes by force of law strict liability for defects in units of that line manufactured by its predecessor. As...

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