Case Name: Donald MacCuish, administrator, vs. Volkswagenwerk A.G. & another
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1987-06-10
Citations: 400 Mass. 1003
Docket Number: 
Parties: Donald MacCuish, administrator, vs. Volkswagenwerk A.G. & another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 400
Pages: 1003–1003

Head Matter:
Donald MacCuish, administrator, vs. Volkswagenwerk A.G. & another.
June 10, 1987.
Lane McGovern (Jerome M. Leonard & James L. Sigel with him) for the defendants.
Michael J. Flynn (Thomas Hoffman with him) for the plaintiff.
Richard P. Campbell, Timothy Wilton, Charles K. Mone, William H. Crabtree & Edward P. Good, for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.
Volkswagen of America, Inc.

Opinion:
We granted the defendants' application for further appellate review, following an opinion of the Appeals Court which, with certain relatively minor adjustments (with which this court agrees), affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. MacCuish v. Volkswagenwerk, A.G., 22 Mass. App. Ct. 380 (1986).
Justice O'Connor has recused himself in this case. The judgment of the Superior Court is to be modified in accordance with the opinion of the Appeals Court, and, as so modified, is affirmed by an equally divided court.
So ordered.