# Frey v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · September 28, 1977 · 258 N.W.2d 782

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9858889

## Case

- **Full name:** Merlon FREY, Et Al., Respondents, v. MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY, INC., Defendant and Third Party Plaintiff, Appellant, v. McGRAW-EDISON COMPANY, Third Party Defendant and Fourth Party Plaintiff, Respondent, v. ROBERTSHAW CONTROLS COMPANY, Fourth Party Defendant, Respondent
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** September 28, 1977
- **Citations:** 258 N.W.2d 782; 1977 Minn. LEXIS 1391
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Todd
- **Judges:** MacLaughlin, Kelly, Todd, Yetka, Peterson, MacLaugh-lin, Scott
- **Cited by:** 49 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9858889

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating the rule that, where a manufacturer has “actual or constructive knowledge of danger to users, the . . . the manufacturer has a duty to warn of such dangers.”
- affirming a directed verdict of negligent failure to warn on use of a space heater

## Opinion text

TODD, Justice
(concurring specially).
I join in the concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Kelly.

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