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· 10/15/1884

City of Kansas v. Kansas City, Topeka & Western Railroad

Citations

  • 84 Mo. 410

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a car manufacturer could assert the plaintiffs misconduct as an affirmative defense in a strict products liability case
  • jury instruction that no design defect exists if “a warning was present and effective to avoid that unreasonable danger”
  • “Clear and intelligible jury instructions are particularly important to explain complex or confusing legal concepts.”
  • “It is settled law in New Hampshire that strict liability for product defect includes manufacturing defect, design defect, and warning defect.”
  • “It is settled law in New Hampshire that strict liability for product defect includes manufacturing defect, design defect, and warning defect.”
  • \We adopted the doctrine of strict products liability as expressed in the RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS § 402-A (1965) in Buttrick v . Lessard.\

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Judges: Henry

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