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DIGHTON v. FED. PAC. ELEC. CO.; SERT, JACKSON & ASSOC.

399 Mass. 687 (1987)

506 N.E.2d 509

PATRICIA DIGHTON & others vs. FEDERAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC COMPANY; SERT, JACKSON & ASSOCIATES, INCORPORATED, & others, third-party defendants (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M.A. Woodworth for Federal Pacific Electric Company.

Carol A. Griffin for Sert, Jackson & Associates, Incorporated.

Cornelius J. Moynihan, Jr. (Patricia A. McEvoy with him) for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.

Martin S. Cosgrove for Leslie W. Abbott, administratrix, & others.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS & NOLAN, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

The defendant and third-party plaintiff, Federal Pacific Electric Company (Federal Pacific), asks us to reconsider whether a manufacturer is protected by the so-called "statute of repose," G.L.c. 260, § 2B4 (hereafter § 2B); and, if not, whether the statute is unconstitutional because it is violative of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States or...

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