Date: 07-20-2012

Case Style: Clifford Smith v. Central Mine Equipment Company

Case Number: 10-cv-999

Judge: Joe Heaton

Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Plaintiff's Attorney: Joseph S. Carson, Homsey Cooper Hill & Associates, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Charles C. "Chris" Haper, Edmond, Oklahoma; and Phillip P. Owens, Owens Law Firm, Edmond, Oklahoma

Defendant's Attorney: Thomas Rowe Kendrick and Timothy L. Martin, Durbin, Larimore & Bialick, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Description: Clifford Smith sued Central Mine Equipment Company on a negligence and products liability theories.

Plaintiff claimed that he was working with a CME-55 truck mounted drill rig when was pulled into the rig's drilling auger and severely injured, disabled, and disfigured.

He claimed that Defendant manufactured the CME-55 truck mounted drilling rig and injected it into the stream of commerce. He further claimed that the rig was defective and unreasonably dangerous and caused the injuries that he sustained while operating the rig.

Defendant denied fault.

Outcome: Defendant's verdict.

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