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- Title: Mason v. Ashland Exploration
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 02, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Clarence Mason, a painter, was seriously injured when he caught his hand in the rotating counterweights of an oil pump. In 1986, he filed a diversity action in the Southern District of Illinois against the pump's owners, Ashland Oil, Inc. and Ashland Exploration, Inc. (collectively referred to as ""Ashland""), and the pump's manufacturer, National Supply Company (""National""). In 1991, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Ashland and National, concluding that, under Illinois law, they had no duty to warn or to protect Mr. Mason from the obvious dangers of the counterweights. Mr. Mason appeals these decisions, and, for the following reasons, we affirm. I