Grimes v. Axtell Ford Lincoln-Mercury

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply strict liability to used car dealer when defect was not discoverable even with reasonable inspection
• where defect is not caused by dealer nor discoverable by reasonable and customary inspection, strict liability does not apply
• doctrine does not apply to dealer in used goods when latent defect is not due to design or manufacture and is caused while goods are in possession of previous owner
• On certification from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals the Iowa Supreme Court declined to decide the question of strict liability for the seller of used goods, instead decided the case on the facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).