Parsonson v. Construction Equipment Co.

Prominent in the juristic area of product liability are those rules by which the courts *64are called upon to ascertain the presence or absence of accountability for having manufactured a chattel which the complaining buyer or user alleges, and the defendant manufacturer or retailer denies, was defectively designed. Out of the great welter of professorial and judicial writing for this division of inquiry there has emerged an equally conspicuous classification of causative claims. Such claims are, in order (a) that the manufacturer’s design has created a concealed or hidden danger; (b) that the…