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JELD-WEN, INC. v. GAMBLE BY GAMBLE

Record No. 972103.

501 S.E.2d 393 (1998)

JELD-WEN, INC. v. Anthony Kent GAMBLE, by His Mother and Next Friend, LaDonna GAMBLE.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Terrence Ney (Thomas L. Appler; Robert R. Vieth; Robert T. Cahill; R. Harrison Pledger, Jr.; Bernard G. Feord, Jr.; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe; Pledger & Feord, on briefs), McLean, for appellant.

Robert J. Stoney (Peter S. Everett, Fairfax; Tracy C. Hudson, Manassas; Donna M. McIntosh, Fairfax; Lewis T. Booker; Lonnie D. Nunley, III, Richmond; Blankingship & Keith, Fairfax; Smith, Hudson, Hammond & Alston, Manassas; Hunton & Williams, Richmond, on brief), for appellee.

The Screen Manufacturers Association, The American Architectural Manufacturers Association, The National Wood Window and Door Association, The National Sash and Door Jobbers Association, Pella Corporation, Marvin Lumber and Cedar Company, Metal Industries, Inc., J.W. Window Components, Inc., Andersen Corporation, AMSCO a Division of Quanex Corporation, Aluminite Manufacturing Co., Inc. (Mary McGowan; Jenelle E. Langen; Siciliano, Ellis, Dyer & Boccarosse, Fairfax, on brief), amici curiae, in support of appellant.

Present: All the Justices.

KOONTZ, Justice.

This is an appeal of a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the plaintiff in a products liability action. Upon well settled principles we will review the evidence in the light most favorable to the party prevailing in the trial court and recount only those facts relevant to our resolution of this appeal.

On April 25, 1993, Anthony Kent Gamble (Gamble), then thirteen months old, fell though an open second floor window in the living room of...

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