Kleen v. Homak Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in addition to answering a certified question, a reviewing court also has the authority to make any order that ought to have been given or grant any relief that may be required
• holding that in addition to answering a certified question a reviewing court also has the authority to make any order that ought to have been given or grant any relief that may be required
• holding as matter of law that defective lock on firearm safe not proximate cause of death by suicide under either negligence or strict products liability theories
• affirming dismissal of action against manufacturer and retailer of firearm safe where child broke into allegedly defective safe, stole gun, and committed suicide
• addressing proximate cause as a matter of law because the complaint failed to plead facts that, even if true, would establish proximate cause
• “A plaintiff must prove that the alleged defect in the product was an actual [proximate] cause of the injuries rather than a mere condition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).