Massachusetts Appeals Court· 8/5/1991

Welch v. Keene Corp.

Citations

575 N.E.2d 766
31 Mass. App. Ct. 157
1991 Mass. App. LEXIS 544

How courts have described this case

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

noting that, for a breach of warranty claim, “a manufacturer has a duty to warn only as to those dangers about which the manufacturer actually knew or about which it reasonably should have known”
applying substantial factor test to multiple defendants whose successive conduct led to the plaintiffs injuiy
“It is enough, however, to reach the jury that [the plaintiff] show that he worked with, or in close proximity to, the defendants’ asbestos products.”
“It is enough ... to reach the jury that [the plaintiff] show that [she] worked with, or in close proximity to, the defendants’ asbestos products”
simply because a witness’s testimony goes to the “ultimate issue” of the case does not make it inadmissible
simply because a witness’s testimony goes to the “ultimate issue” of the case does not make it inadmissible

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Judges: Smith, Porada, Greenberg

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