Willamette Essential Oils, Inc. v. Herrold & Jensen Implement Co.

*403BUTTLER, P. J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of defendants in a strict liability action brought to recover for property damage sustained when plaintiffs tractor, purchased from Herrold & Jensen and manufactured by J.I. Case, caught fire. Plaintiff contends that the tractor was unreasonably dangerous by virtue of a design defect. The issues are whether the trial court committed reversible error in failing to give a jury instruction that contained a “consumer-oriented test” to determine whether the tractor was dangerously defective, and in giving an…