MECKERT v. SEARS ROEBUCK & COMPANY


281 A.D.2d 402 (2001)

721 N.Y.S.2d 393

BERYL N. MECKERT, Appellant, v. SEARS ROEBUCK & COMPANY, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided March 5, 2001.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is denied, and the complaint is reinstated.

The plaintiff alleges that in October 1993, her decedent Edward Nault was killed in a fire and her decedent Kathryn Nault was injured in the same fire. The plaintiff contends that the fire was caused by a defective electric blanket purchased from the defendant and manufactured by nonparty Sunbeam Corporation (hereinafter Sunbeam). The defendant moved...

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