Inglis v. American Motors Corp.

No less an authority than Dean Prosser, preeminent, especially, in the law of torts, has yielded to the temptation to tilt his lance of legal learning into the mass of difficult questions that have arisen during the last century in the field of products liability cases.

Over a hundred years ago, in 1842, The Court of the Exchequer, in the case of Winterbottom v. Wright, 10 M. & W. 109, 152 Eng. Rep. 402, 405, 11 L. J. Ex. 415, fashioned the rule that no manufacturer or seller of a product was ever liable to anyone with whom he had made no contract and Lord Abinger of the eourt had the…