Schumacher v. Richards Shear Co.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1983-06-14

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Jasen, J. (dissenting). The court today has fashioned a remedy for a person injured due to an allegedly defectively designed product against a corporation acquiring the assets of the manufacturer of the product on the theory of negligence by imposing upon the successor corporation an independent duty to warn based upon a “special relationship”. Inasmuch as I do not believe that the plaintiff has established any cause of action aga…

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