Stanton v. Carlson Sales, Inc.

For almost three decades, “American courts have struggled with the question of whether to hold commercial sellers of used products to the same legal standards of responsibility for defects as commercial sellers of new products.” Restatement (Third), Torts, Products Liability § 8 comment (a), p. 166 (1998). No published Connecticut decision has squarely addressed this issue, and courts of other jurisdictions are divided on the subject. Annot., Products Liability: Application of Strict Liability Doctrine to Seller of Used Product, 9 A.L.R.5th 1 (1993). The United States Court of Appeals for the…