Hatcher v. Allied Products Corp.
Decision Date | 25 June 1986 |
Docket Number | No. 43233,43233 |
Parties | , Prod.Liab.Rep. (CCH) P 11,030 HATCHER v. ALLIED PRODUCTS CORPORATION et al. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Hilliard P. Burt, Burt, Burt & Davis, P.A., G. Stuart Watson, Albany, George Vernon, Chicago, Ill., for Marian Hatcher.
Edmund A. Landau, Jr., Richard D. Hall, Landau & Davis, P.C., Albany, for Allied Products Corp., et al.
Douglas E. Smith,. Manley F. Brown, Joy R. Devine, William H. Stanhope, amici curiae.
This case comes to us upon three questions certified from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 782 F.2d 926 (11th Cir.1986).
Miriam Hatcher filed suit against John Deere Company and Deere & Company, maintaining the defendants were negligent and strictly liable for injuries she suffered on June 2, 1982 while using a product manufactured by defendant Deere & Company, and distributed by defendant John Deere Company. The District Court for the Middle District of Georgia granted the defendants' motions for summary judgment on all counts on the ground that Hatcher's claims are barred by OCGA § 51-1-11(b)(2). Hatcher thereafter appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
The facts of the case, as stated by the Eleventh Circuit, are as follows:
Based on these facts, the Eleventh Circuit certified the following questions.
1. "Where an injury occurred less than ten years after the first sale of the product, and where suit is filed more than ten years after the first sale of the product, does OCGA § 51-1-11(b)(2) bar strict liability claims based on an alleged defect in the product?"
Yes. Prior to July 1, 1978, there was no time bar to a strict liability claim under OCGA § 51-1-11 against a product manufacturer. We hold that in enacting OCGA § 51-1-11(b)(2), see Ga.L.1978, p. 2267, § 1, the General Assembly intended to bar an action which is commenced more than ten years after the "date of the first sale for use or consumption of the personal property causing or otherwise bringing about the injury." The statute is, therefore, a complete bar to strict liability actions filed more than ten years after the "date of the first sale for use or consumption of" the product regardless of whether...
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