DISCLAIMER: Any unofficial case summaries below are prepared by the clerk's office
as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.
212984P.pdf 07/12/2022 Jonathan Edwards v. Skylift, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-2984
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Torts. In action alleging a derrick digger manufactured and
sold by defendant was defective, unreasonably dangerous and negligently
designed because an override switch allowed the digger to be operated
without the deployment of stabilizing outriggers, the district court did
not err in granting defendant summary judgment because plaintiff had not
produced sufficient evidence to support a finding that the derrick digger
was unreasonably dangerous as Arkansas defines that phrase; as a result,
the court need not decide whether the machine's design was defective; with
respect to the claim of negligent design, no jury could have found that
the machine was negligently designed, and the district court did not err
in granting defendant summary judgment on this claim.