Buttrick v. Arthur Lessard & Sons, Inc.

This case presents the question of whether a person sustaining personal injuries and property damage because of a defect in an automobile sold him by the defendant can recover without proof that the defendant was negligent.

Plaintiff was nonsuited at the conclusion of his opening statement and his exception was reserved and transferred by the Trial Court (Botones, J.).

The outline of the plaintiff’s case in the opening statement is adopted for the purpose of ruling on this exception. In the fall of 1962 plaintiff purchased from the defendant a 1962 Studebaker with a “new car guarantee.”…