Goncalves v. Wire Technology & MacHinery Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no federal preemption of state successorship liability law
• permitting plaintiff injured by defective equipment to maintain action against successor corporation that allegedly purchased manufacturer's assets in liquidation proceeding and continued product line
• adopting Wilkerson to find purchaser of assets of Chapter 7 debtor potentially liable for injuries arising out of defects in product line.
• company that bought assets of the manufacturer of the machine at a bankruptcy sale was subject to liability
• applying “product line” theory of liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).