United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant in a wrongful death/product liability action involving the workplace death of plaintiff's husband resulting from a collapse of a crane allegedly manufactured by defendant is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining claims were ripe for summary judgment, or in finding that there was no genuine issue of material fact concerning defendant's liability for the accident.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2006
• Published 02/15/2006

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, LAY, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daryl D. Parks, argued, Tallahassee, FL (Eric S. Buchanan of Little Rock, AR on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Samuel Jones, argued, III, Little Rock, AR (Kathlyn Graves on the brief), for appellee.