Phillips v. Cricket Lighters

OPINION

Chief Justice CAPPY.

This is an appeal by allowance. We are asked to resolve whether the Superior Court properly reversed, in part, the *649trial court’s order dismissing all of the claims against the manufacturers and distributors of a cigarette lighter which was allegedly the cause of a fatal fire. For the reasons that follow, we now reverse in part, affirm in part, and vacate in part.

I

On the night of November 30, 1993, two year old Jerome Campbell (“Jerome”) pulled down the purse belonging to his mother, Robyn Williams (“Robyn”), from the top of the family’s refrigerator. Jerome…