Segal v. Carroll Furniture Co.

1. Although it is the rule that where a retail dealer buys from a manufacturer for resale an article in common use and of ordi■narily safe nature, contained in a sealed or closed package, he is under no duty to test or inspect the article, and can not be held liable for an injury to a purchaser from a latent or concealed defect, or even from a defect which would have been patent if the package had been opened, in the absence of actual knowledge of the defect, yet where the article has been exposed by the dealer in the process of sale and has been installed by him for the purchaser, with an…