Lafayette County v. Hixon

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• rejecting an expansion of common law consortium claims to extend to parents for injury to children
• holding, inter alia, that a passenger on an amusement park ride is not a bailee of that ride, but a mere licensee who, though she may sue the ride's operator in negligence, may not sue him on the theory of strict products liability
• declining to extend a strict liability cause of action to purchasers of services
• refusing to extend strict liability to owner and operator of amusement park ride when there was no indication that the plaintiffs suffered an “unfair burden” from not doing so because they possess adequate protection through an action for negligence
• declining to hold the defendant owner and operator of an amusement park strictly liable for a defective ride because it “provide[d] persons with a service[,] namely, a ride on a machine,” and did “not sell or supply a product”
• declining to hold the defendant owner and operator of an amusement park strictly liable for a defective ride because it “provide[d] persons with a service[,] namely, a ride on a machine,” and did “not sell or supply a product”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).