DAVIS v. WOOD-MIZER PRODUCTS, INC.

Nos. C025766, C025845.

78 Cal.Rptr.2d 870 (1998)

Lorena R. DAVIS, a Minor, etc., Plaintiff, Cross-complainant and Appellant, v. WOOD-MIZER PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant; Glenn H. Davis et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents. Lorena R. DAVIS, a Minor, etc., Plaintiff, Cross-complainant and Respondent, v. WOOD-MIZER PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant; Glenn H. Davis et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1998.

Review Denied January 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tanke & Willemsen, Palo Alto, Tony J. Tanke, Redwood, Karen Bautista Hobin, Drivon & Tabak and Stewart M. Tabak, Stockton, for Plaintiff and Appellant in C025766; for Plaintiff, Cross-complainant and Respondent in C025845.

Matheny, Poidmore, Linkert & Sears; Matheny, Sears, Linkert & Long, Douglas A. Sears and Eric R. Wiesel, Sacramento, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Montague, Cochrane and Viglione, J. Michael Cochrane, Sacramento, for Cross-defendants and Respondents.


Certified for Partial Publication.*

MORRISON, Associate Justice.

Three-year-old plaintiff Lorena Davis was injured when she wandered off her grandparents' porch to a portable sawmill and put her hand in the sprocket gear of the sawmill. Through her guardian ad litem, plaintiff brought suit against Wood-Mizer Products, Inc., the manufacturer of the sawmill, for defective design, and against her grandparents, Glenn H. and Dorothie...

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