Kelley Ex Rel. Kelley v. Rival Manufacturing Co.

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• awarding summary judgment to defen- dant manufacturer of product where negligence of parents was cause of accident in Oklahoma, which also has a rule that very young chil- dren cannot be negligent
• no design defect where child pulled crock pot of baked beans off kitchen table and severely burned
• crock-pot found not unreasonably dangerous because there was no evidence showing that it was more dangerous than the average consumer would expect and the risk of harm to unsupervised children was obvious to an ordinary consumer. Manufacturer was under no duty to make a child-proof product
• in a case involving a small child who was injured hy pulling a crock-pot onto himself, the question of whether the crock-pot was unreasonably dangerous is determined by the perspective of the parent consumer who purchased the product, not the perspective of the minor child
• in a case involving a small child who was injured by pulling a crock-pot onto himself, the question of whether the crock-pot was unreasonably dangerous is determined by the perspective of the parent consumer who purchased the product, not the perspective of the minor child

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