Savage Arms, Inc. v. Western Auto Supply Co.

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• concluding that tort liability of corporate successor should be evaluated using choice-of-law rules governing tort rather than contract or corporate law, in order to preserve public policy behind products liability law-to ensure that responsible parties bear costs of injuries
• concluding that tort liability of corporate successor should be evaluated using choice-of-law rules governing tort rather than contract or corporate law, in order to preserve public policy behind products liability law—to ensure that responsible parties bear costs of injuries
• analyzing other states' approaches to successor liability law and concluding that successor cases dealing with products liability are appropriately charaterized as torts questions
• analyzing other states’ approaches to successor liability law and concluding that successor cases dealing with products liability are appropriately characterized as torts questions
• holding successor corporation liable for injuries caused by defectively manufactured rifle
• holding successor corporation liable for injuries caused by defectively manufactured rifle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).