Lockett v. General Electric Company

How courts have described this case

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• under both sections 388 and 389, a supplier is merely required to exercise reasonable care, and even then, only when it knows or should have known of the danger
• “[A] supplier of a chattel has no duty under § 388 to test or inspect or even make a cursory examination to ascertain the existence or non-existence of a dangerous condition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).