Crislip v. TCH Liquidating Co.

The Crislips, plaintiffs-appellees, do not allege a design or manufacturing defect in the Timber Iron Furnace Caddy. Rather, they claim that the failure of defendant-appellant, TCH Liquidating Company, to adequately warn them of the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning rendered the Timber Iron unreasonably dangerous. This court has adopted Section 402A of 2 Restatement of the Law 2d, Torts (1965) 347, along with Comment j, at 353, which allows a cause of action in strict liability when failure to warn renders a product unreasonably dangerous. Thus, we agree with the court of appeals that the…