CHOATE v. CHAMPION HOME BUILDERS CO.

Nos. 98-7190, 99-7001.

222 F.3d 788 (2000)

Duane CHOATE, Individually, and Patsy Sue Madewell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Clinton Keith Madewell, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHAMPION HOME BUILDERS COMPANY, a Michigan corporation doing business in the State of Oklahoma, Defendant-Appellee, Heritage Mobile Homes, Inc., d/b/a Siloam Springs Manufactured Home Center, an Arkansas corporation, doing business in the State of Oklahoma d/b/a Siloam Springs Manufactured Home Center, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 25, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony M. Graham, Feldman, Franden, Woodard & Farris, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Jody R. Nathan, Feldman, Franden, Woodard & Farris, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Richard S. Toon, The Law Office of Rich Toon, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard C. Ford, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (LeAnne Burnett, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Andrew T. Bayman and Amy M. Power, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BALDOCK, EBEL, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants Duane Choate ("Choate") and Patsy Sue Madewell ("Madewell") brought this products liability action against Defendant-Appellee Champion Home Builders Company ("Champion") and Defendant Heritage Mobile Homes, Inc., d/b/a Siloam Springs Manufactured Home Center ("Heritage"), on the basis of their failure to provide a smoke detector with a battery-powered backup, or failure to warn that the hard-wired smoke detector in Duane...

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