Coyne v. John S. Tilley Co. Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• allowing the jury to infer as a matter of common knowledge that a relatively new ladder would not collapse absent negligence
• collapse of a relatively new aluminum step ladder so that its legs bent inward in a 45 degree angle warranted a finding that ladder was improperly fabricated
• trier of fact could deem it improbable that ladder which collapsed had been damaged in handling after manufacture based on the fact that it appeared to be “bright, new, and defect-free”
• can infer as matter of common knowledge that newish aluminum step ladder would not when being used collapse inward at forty-five degree angle unless someone had been negligent
• a case involving the sudden and unexplained failure of a ladder
• “[A] trier of fact could infer as [a] matter of common knowledge that a relatively new aluminum stepladder would not collapse in such a way that one of its legs was bent inward . . . unless someone had been negligent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).