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MARTIN v. INTERNATIONAL DRYER CORP.

No. 85-351-CIV-5.

637 F.Supp. 101 (1986)

Dennis MARTIN, Administrator of the Estate of David Martin, Deceased, and Anna Dell Watts, Plaintiffs, v. INTERNATIONAL DRYER CORPORATION, United Technologies Corporation, Essex Group, Inc., Hamilton Standard Controls, Inc., and Fenwal Incorporated, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division.

June 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Wishart, Diana L. Evans, Wishart, Norris, Henninger & Pittman, Burlington, N.C., for Fenwall Incorp.

Edward N. Rodman, Rodman, Holscher & Francisco, Washington, D.C., for Essex Group, Inc., Hamilton Standards Controls, Inc. United Technologies Corp.

Bynum M. Hunter, Alan W. Duncan, Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N.C., for International Dryer Corp.

William L. Thorp, Anne R. Slifkin, Thorp, Fuller & Slifkin, Raleigh, N.C., Marvin Blount, Jr., Charles Hardee, Blount & White, Greenville, N.C., for plaintiffs.

ORDER

TERRENCE WILLIAM BOYLE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs claim injury and death as a result of a propane gas explosion in an apartment building in Greenville, North Carolina on March 2, 1983. Defendants are the manufacturers of products that were used in a gas clothes dryer that exploded in the laundry room of the building. In this suit plaintiffs seek actual and punitive damages and allege federal question jurisdiction pursuant to the Consumer Product Safety...

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