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Dague v. Piper Aircraft Corp.

Citations

  • 418 N.E.2d 207
  • 275 Ind. 520
  • 25 A.L.R. 4th 629
  • 1981 Ind. LEXIS 714

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining our Supreme Court “has traditionally given broad interpretation to the one-subject requirement, and thereby allowed legislative combinations of matters which, at first blush, might appear quite diverse”
  • even though product manufacturer had a continuing duty to warn consumers of product’s dangers, failure to do so was not a continuous wrong
  • “[T]his Court has traditionally given broad interpretation to the one-subject requirement, and thereby allowed legislative combinations of matters which, at first blush, might appear quite diverse.”
  • “[0]ne of the acknowledged functions of legislation is to change the common law to reflect change of time and circumstances”
  • “The Product Liability Act expressly applies to all product liability actions sounding in tort, including those based on the theory of negligence . . . .”
  • \or” may be construed to mean \and” to comply with legislative intent

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Judges: DeBRULER, Givan, Hunter, Pivarnik, Prentice

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