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TRAXLER v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Docket Nos. 200704, 200856.

576 N.W.2d 398 (1998)

227 Mich. App. 276

Sarah A. TRAXLER, Minor, by her next friend Steven Traxler, Deanna Traxler and Scott Traxler, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Defendants-Appellants, and Spalding and Evenflo Companies and Evenflo Juvenile Furniture Company, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided January 13, 1998, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication March 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rhoades, McKee, Boer, Goodrich & Titta by Bruce W. Neckers, Paul A. McCarthy, and Molly M. McNamara, Grand Rapids, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Dawson & Clark, P.C., Detroit by Kathleen A. Clark and John R. Prew, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Grand Rapids by Richard A. Glaser, John M. Thomas, and Michael J. O'Reilly, Dearborn, for defendants-appellants.

Before GRIFFIN, P.J., and WAHLS and GRIBBS, JJ.

WAHLS, Judge.

Defendants Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company of Canada (hereinafter Ford) appeal by leave granted from an order of default. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

This case stems from an automobile accident in 1990. At the time of the accident, two-month-old Sarah Traxler was strapped into a child safety seat in the back of her parents' 1986 Ford Tempo. Her mother was driving, and her father was seated next to her in the back...

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