General Motors Corp. v. Farnsworth

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “[a] seat belt is a familiar product whose basic function is well understood by the general population”
• concluding party waived argument raised for first time in motion for new trial and other post-verdict relief
• holding it was error not to instruct jury on plaintiff's comparative fault in a strict liability action against manufacturer based on defective seatbelt and not to allocate fault to third person who may have caused the accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).