Pelc v. Bendix MacHine Tool Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that a successor corporation was not liable for damages resulting from the operation of a defective product where the totality of the transaction did not demonstrate a continuity of the enterprise
• determining that a successor corporation was not liable for damages resulting from the operation of a defective product where the totality of the transaction did not demonstrate a continuity of the enterprise
• finding satisfaction of the fourth Turner guideline when buyer listed itself under seller’s name in telephone directory, labeled products with seller’s name, and distributed literature to customers representing and identifying itself as a continuation of seller
• “The Turner Court reasoned that the traditional corporate law approach was neither legally nor logically related to the policy considerations underlying the evolving law of products liability.”
• invitation declined to adopt more expansive product line theory of liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).