MacDougall v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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• occurrence of malfunction in absence of other identifiable causes sufficient to support finding of ‘defective condition’ for purposes of tort liability
• “Mrs. MacDougall’s testimony of the bizarre steering action both before and when the accident occurred establishes a mechanical malfunction in the absence of abnormal use which prevented her from maintaining control of the car.”
• erratic steering, specified mechanical defects found by expert
• recently approved in Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp., 225 Pa. Superior Ct. 349, 353, 311 A. 2d 140 (1973) aff’d, 462 Pa. 95,337 A. 2d 893(1975)and D’Antona v. Hampton Grinding Wheel Co., 225 Pa. Superior Ct. 120, 123, n. 4, 310 A. 2d 307 (1973)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).