Sterling Jackson v. Coast Paint and Lacquer Company, a Corporation, and Reliance Universal Incorporated, a Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• finding that whether a danger is sufficiently known as to relieve a defendant of its duty to warn is “an issue for the jury”
• discussing Montana law which, like Missouri law, follows the Restatement 2d on Torts
• good discussion of contributory fault defense, under Montana law, which adopted the Restatement 2d, as did Missouri
• ignition of paint fumes from static electricity or broken light bulb; sufficiency of warning “Keep away from heat, sparks, and open flames. USE WITH ADEQUATE VENTILATION” was a question of fact
• “On the issue of the duty to warn, however, the question.. . . .is whether ‘the danger, or potentially [sic] of danger, is generally known and recognized . . . .”

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