St. Luke's Hospital v. Schmaltz

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• hospital which furnished defective blood transfusion did not make sale of a product and was not liable under doctrine of strict liability
• blood provided by hospital only as an incident to transaction for medical services; blood therefore not a “marketed product” in context where essential nature of transaction was the providing of medical services
• Hospital which furnished defective blood for transfusion to a patient who contracted serum hepatitis as a result thereof did not make a sale of a product, but rendered a service. Strict products liability count could not be maintained.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).