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DANIELSEN v. RICHARDS MFG. CO., INC.

No. 42840.

294 N.W.2d 858 (1980)

206 Neb. 676

Dorothy H. DANIELSEN, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. RICHARDS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Appellant and Cross-Appellee and Misdom-Frank Corporation et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

July 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Hadland of Cassem, Tierney, Adams, Gotch & Douglas, Omaha, for appellant and cross-appellee.

Abrahams, Kaslow & Cassman, Omaha, for appellee and cross-appellant, Danielsen.

Heard before KRIVOSHA, C. J., and BOSLAUGH, McCOWN, CLINTON, BRODKEY, WHITE, and HASTINGS, JJ.

CLINTON, Justice.

Plaintiff, Dorothy H. Danielsen, brought this action against the defendant, Richards Manufacturing Company, Inc., a supplier of surgical instruments, and others, to recover damages for personal injuries suffered when a 7-inch straight pituitary rongeur, belonging to and used by the plaintiff's surgeon, Dr. Gerald E. Ries, fractured during a partial hemilaminectomy, leaving a portion of the jaw of the instrument embedded in a vertebral disc. The broken...

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