VANDELUNE v. 4B ELEVATOR COMPONENTS UNLIMITED

No. 97-2510.

148 F.3d 943 (1998)

Mark VANDELUNE and Julie Vandelune, individually and as parents of Chelsea Vandelune and Tasia Vandelune, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. 4B ELEVATOR COMPONENTS UNLIMITED; Synatel Instrumental Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Van Dyke, Carroll, IA, argued, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Eugene A. Wollan, Sioux City, IA, argued (Robert L. Fanter and J. Campbell Helton, Des Moines, IA, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before LOKEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and WEBBER, District Judge.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Mark Vandelune was seriously injured in a grain dust explosion while working at the Consolidated Cooperative Grain Elevator ("Consolidated") in Gowrie, Iowa. Contending that a faulty M700 Speedswitch Monitor proximately caused the explosion and injury, Vandelune commenced this product liability suit against Synatel Instrumentation Ltd. ("Synatel"), the British manufacturer of the M700, and 4B Elevator Components Ltd. ("4B"), its independent...

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