WEST v. SEARS ROEBUCK & CO.

No. 85-1242.

780 F.2d 169 (1986)

Julie WEST, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SEARS ROEBUCK & CO., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark F. Itzkowitz with whom Carmen L. Durso, C. Deborah Phillips and Marullo & Barnes, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Robert L. Athas with whom Flash & Athas, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.


WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.

In this tort action, admittedly governed by the law of Massachusetts, brought in the district court pursuant to its uncontested diversity jurisdiction, the plaintiff-appellant, Julie West, complained that the injuries she sustained when a piece of metal pipe struck her foot on May 21, 1978, were caused by the negligence of AMF, Inc., which manufactured at an uncertain date the AMF Model 902031 power rotary lawn mower which on May 21...

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