Bruce Martin Construction, Inc. v. CTB, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “case law from outside Indiana reflects an understanding that defects in material and workmanship refer to departures from a product’s intended design while design defects refer to the inadequacy of the design itself”
• applying Indiana law and collecting cases from other jurisdictions holding “where a product is manufactured correctly but designed inappropriately, the defect is one of design and not ‘material or workmanship’”
• “A defect in material is a defect in quality . . . . Design, on the contrary, involves the overall plan of construction and operation.”
• “[D]efects in material and workmanship refer to departures from a product’s intended design while design defects refer to the inadequacy of the design itself.” (interpreting Indiana law
• “We review a district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).