LANGLEY BY LANGLEY v. UNION ELEC. CO.

No. 96-1908.

107 F.3d 510 (1997)

Melissa M. Moore LANGLEY, deceased, by her personal representative, Ronald G. LANGLEY, Jr.; Nathan R. Patterson, deceased, by his personal representative, Ronald G. Langley, Jr.; and Lisa L. Langley Bergman, deceased, by her personal representative, Ronald G. Langley, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee W. Barron (argued), Gail Renshaw, Wood River, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Mary S. Juen, Karl D. Dexheimer (argued), Thompson Coburn, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Ronald G. Langley, as the personal representative of three decedents, sued the Union Electric Company on the theory that an unventilated furnace, negligently provided with gas by Union Electric, killed the Langley-Patterson family. Langley never produced the furnace. As a sanction for this failure of production, the district court disallowed all evidence pertaining to the existence or use of the furnace. With no evidence before it to...

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