Elmore v. American Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “doctrine [of strict liability] may not be limited on theory that no representation of safety is made to the bystander.”
• foresee ability of bystanders is not restricted by privity of contract with seller of defective goods
• foreseeabiity of bystanders is not restricted by privity of contract with seller of defective goods
• “[ijnjury to a bystander is often a perfectly foreseeable risk of the maker’s enterprise.... If anything, bystanders should be entitled to greater protection than the consumer or user where injury to bystanders from the defect is reasonably foreseeable.”
• “[i]njury to a bystander is often a perfectly foreseeable risk of the maker’s enterprise . . . . If anything, bystanders should be entitled to greater protection than the consumer or user where injury to bystanders from the defect is reasonably foreseeable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).