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· 3/9/1981

Talley v. City Tank Corp.

Citations

  • 279 S.E.2d 264
  • 158 Ga. App. 130
  • 1981 Ga. App. LEXIS 2103

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Unless the manufacturer’s defective product can be shown to be the proximate cause of the injuries, there can be no recovery.”
  • trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter summary judgment prior to receipt of remittitur, but reentry of order after remittitur was issued cured error
  • “A manufacturer has the absolute right to have his strict liability for injuries adjudged on the basis of the design of his own marketed product and not that of someone else” (emphasis added)
  • “A manufacturer has the absolute right to have his strict liability for injuries adjudged on the basis of the design of his own marketed product and not that of someone else” (emphasis added)
  • “A duty to warn of danger in the use of a product extends only to the use of the product in the manner reasonably contemplated and anticipated by the manufacturer.”
  • proximate cause is a necessary element of a product liability case

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Judges: Carley, Quillian, Shulman

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