33:620:301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilson Sporting Goods
12 Dec 2017
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Hickox and his wife file suit in a d. c. court against wilson. Jury awards ,000 to mr. hickox and ,000 to his wife. Jury must make findings under consumer-expectation test. Judgment of trial court is affirmed by appellate court. At an annual retreat for major league baseball umpires, a wilson [sporting goods. Company] representative gave [edwin] hickox an umpire"s mask with what the representative claimed was a new, safer design. Several months later, mr. hickox wore the mask while working behind home plate as an umpire during a game in washington, d. c. In the top of the ninth inning, a foul-tipped ball struck the mask. The impact of the ball gave mr. hickox a concussion and damaged a joint between the bones in mr. hickox"s inner ear. As a result, mr. hickox suffered permanent hearing loss of mild to moderate severity.
