Featherall v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a manufacturer of a chattel is subject to liability for knowing or having reason to know that a chattel is dangerous and failing to warn of its dangerousness
• finding that plaintiff established a prima facie case of negligent failure to warn where the failure to warn “constituted negligence which proximately caused the explosion and plaintiff’s injuries”
• explaining that a duty to warn “extends not only to the immediate purchaser but to other persons who might in the ordinary and natural course of events be subjected to [the] danger”
• discussing elements of such claims as set forth by the Restatement (Second
• “foreseeable misuse is in marked contrast to . . . unanticipated misuse”
• manufacturer is not required to supply an accident proof product

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).