Bredberg v. Pepsico, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that we take “into consideration every legitimate inference that may fairly and reasonably be made” from the evidence
• stating that when bottle explodes, “defect is so obvious as to warrant little or no discussion”
• recognizing the comparative fault statute allows the fact finder to assign fault to one or more parties claimed to have contributed to the plaintiffs injuries
• strict liability claims generally involve factual issues to be resolved by the jury or other trier of fact
• in turn quoting Aller v. Rodgers Mach. Mfg. Co., 268 N.W.2d 830, 834 (Iowa 1978)
• under the statute, neither designers nor manufacturers are immune from strict liability claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).