Magrine v. SPECTOR

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• dentist not strictly liable for defective needle broken in plaintiff's gum during treatment
• plaintiff could- not recover against his dentist on a strict liability theory for injuries suffered when a hypodermic needle being used to inject a local anesthetic snapped off, due to no fault of the dentist, while in the plaintiff’s jaw
• dentist not strictly liable for defective needle used to treat patient
• the reason for imposing strict liability is to make those who put the product \in the stream of trade and promote its purchase by the public\ accountable for injuries arising from the promotion and use of the product.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).