HIMES v. WOODINGS-VERONA TOOL WORKS, INC.

No. C4-96-2199.

565 N.W.2d 469 (1997)

Dale G. HIMES, Appellant, v. WOODINGS-VERONA TOOL WORKS, INC., Respondent, Northeast Supply Company, Inc., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied August 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary J. Halom, Ashley, Hannula & Halom, Superior, WI, for Appellant.

C. Marshall Friedman, P.C., Patrick S. O'Brien, St. Louis, MO, for Appellant.

Jerome D. Feriancek, Thomas R. Thibodeau, Johnson, Killen, Thibodeau & Seiler, P.A., Duluth, for Respondent.

Considered and decided by DAVIES, P.J., and SCHUMACHER and HOLTAN, JJ.


OPINION

SCHUMACHER, Judge.

Appellant Dale G. Himes, the plaintiff in this product liability and negligence action, challenges the trial court's exclusion of the testimony and report of an expert. The exclusion was a sanction for loss of a crucial piece of evidence. We affirm.

FACTS

Himes was employed as a track laborer for a railroad. He was injured in June 1989 when a four-foot-long track bolt wrench broke. Himes brought a Federal Employers...

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