Scott Crawford and Darlene Crawford v. Sears Roebuck & Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding evidence negating other possible causes of an accident was necessary to avoid summary judgment when a ladder was sold to a purchaser and the ladder’s history after its sale was unknown
• noting that an expert testified about an ANSI safety standard related to load ratings and concluding that the fact that a product buckled under “a normal load is not enough to establish that it was defectively designed or that it was sold in a defective condition”
• requiring evidence that defendant was negligent in supplying the allegedly defective product
• “[W]hen common experience teaches that an accident would not have happened in the absence of a defect, a case may sometimes be allowed to proceed to a factfinder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).