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163516P.pdf 07/03/2017 Bruce Lindholm v. BMW of North America, LLC
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3516
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Pierre
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Products liability. In action alleging tire jack supplied by
defendant was defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous, the
district court did not err in concluding a reasonable jury would have to
conclude that plaintiff's decedent misused the jack by using it for a
purpose for which it was not intended; the misuse of the jack was not
foreseeable as a matter of law, given the warnings accompanying it, and
defendant was entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's
strict-liability claim; with respect to plaintiff's negligence and
negligent-design claims, the victim's misuse of the jack also constitutes
contributory negligence which bars recovery under South Dakota law;
defendant's summary judgment on plaintiff's wrongful-death claim affirmed.