United States Fifth Circuit

Whether an employer should have known of the latent dangerous characteristics of machinery it purchased from a manufacturer to be operated by its employees was a question of genuine fact that precluded summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2002
• Published 01/24/2002

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge, and DOWD, District Judge **:, Before JOLLY and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence Charles Billeaud (argued), Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., James Berry St. John, Jr. (argued), Greg Lynn Johnson, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Columbian Chemicals Co., John C. Combe, Jr. (argued), Judith V. Windhorst, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, for Henkel Corp. and Millennium Petrochemicals, Inc.