GARRISON v. GOULD, INC.

Nos. 93-2696, 93-2697 and 93-2799.

36 F.3d 588 (1994)

Cheryl GARRISON, Special Administrator of the Estate of William Tab Garrison, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOULD, INCORPORATED, ABB Power T & D Company, Incorporated and ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, and OIL TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Defendant-Third/Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Third/Party-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Finch, Endicott & Finch, Carmi, IL, Robert H. Howerton, Harris, Lambert, Howerton & Dorris, Marion, IL (argued), for Cheryl Garrison.

Edwina Warner, Troutt, Alexander, Popit & Warner, Benton, IL (argued), for Gould, Inc., ABB Power T & D Co., Inc., and ABB Asea Brown Boveri.

Ronald A. Roth (argued), David Wayne Vandeburgt, Bernard & Davidson, Granite City, IL, for Oil Technology Group.

Al J. Pranaitis (argued), C. Raymond Bell, Hoagland, Fitzgerald, Smith & Pranaitis, Alton, IL, for Shell Oil Co.

Before CUDAHY and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and SHARP, District Judge.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Tab Garrison, Cheryl Garrison's husband, was killed in June 1990 while working on electrical equipment in an oil field owned by Oil Technology Group ("OTG"). Cheryl Garrison sued to recover damages from OTG and from the successors in interest of the electrical switch maker (referred to collectively as "Gould") whose product purportedly caused the injury.1 OTG then sought contribution from Shell Oil Company ("Shell...

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