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GANTES v. KASON CORP.

145 N.J. 478 (1996)

679 A.2d 106

SAMUEL GANTES, ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM OF GRACIELA GONZALEZ, ON BEHALF OF THE ESTATE OF GRACIELA GONZALEZ AND ON BEHALF OF THE HEIRS-AT-LAW OF GRACIELA GONZALEZ, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. KASON CORPORATION, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT, AND OTTO CUYLER ASSOCIATES AND XYZ CO. I-V (BEING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS ENTITIES WHOSE IDENTITIES ARE CURRENTLY UNKNOWN), DEFENDANTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Y. Medvin argued the cause for appellant (Medvin & Elberg, attorneys).

Peter B. Van Deventer, Jr., argued the cause for respondent (Robinson, St. John & Wayne, attorneys; Douglas H. Amster and John S. Wisniewski, on the brief).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by HANDLER, J.

In this case, a young woman, working in a chicken processing plant in Georgia, was killed when struck in the head by a moving part of a machine. The machine had been manufactured more than thirteen years before the fatal accident by a New Jersey corporation with its principal place of business in Linden, New Jersey.

Representatives of the decedent, asserting that the machine was defective, brought this...

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