Court Opinion

ID: 9645150
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 21:14:10.444641+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:24.110582
License: Public Domain

LUKOWSKY, Justice
(dissenting).
I join with the Chief Justice in the views which he expressed as to the liability of Johnny N. Davis, d/b/a Tip-Top Sanitation.
The web of liability woven by the Chief Justice from the threads of “unreasonable risk of harm” and “foreseeability of injury” is both large enough and strong enough to enmesh and hold M & T Chemicals, Inc.
A reasonable fact finder has a right to believe that an ordinarily prudent manufacturer who must dispose of “potentially explosive and inflammable material” would exercise a degree of care for the protection of the public in excess of the general warning and requirement of an indemnity agreement observed here.
The standard of care escalates in at least direct proportion to the risk of harm. The value of M & T’s contribution to society would not be significantly impaired by a requirement that these potential bombs be accurately segegrated by its employees or even kept under lock and key in an ammunition dump.
The trial court properly submitted the whole case to the jury. It returned its verdict. I would affirm the judgment entered on that verdict in its entirety.