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ONTARIO SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, LTD. v. SMITH

No. S01G1233.

572 S.E.2d 533 (2002)

275 Ga. 683

ONTARIO SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, LTD. et al. v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

November 12, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weinberger, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Earl W. Gunn, Ashley P. Nichols, Claire C. Dorchak, Nancy G. Cook, Atlanta, for appellants.

Daniel MacDougald III, Atlanta, for appellee.

King & Spalding, Chilton D. Varner, Carmen R. Toledo, Robert B. Friedman, Brown & Shamp, Robert H. Brown III, Atlanta, amicus curiae.

SEARS, Presiding Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether the opinion of the Court of Appeals constitutes an erroneous expansion of the law of this state regarding the existence and scope of the duties of manufacturers with respect to dangerous product defects.1 For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the Court of Appeals decided issues concerning the duties of manufacturers that were unnecessary to a resolution...

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