Clay v. Ferrellgas, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district · 6 state decisions

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1. “[Defendants’] arguments concerning strict products liability are misdirected because strict products liability was not submitted to the jury as a separate theory of recovery, and any tangential reference to products liability in the instructions was not sufficiently prejudicial to call for reversal. Since the products liability instructions in this case explain the standard of care in terms of negligence only, we need not discuss whether strict products liability applies to services or used goods because no issue concerning strict products liability was submitted to the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hinger v. Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co.

2. “[t]he proximate cause of an injury is that which, in a natural and continuous sequence ... produces the injury and without which the injury would not have occurred. It need not be the only cause, nor the last nor nearest cause. It is sufficient if it occurs with some other cause, acting at the same time, which, in combination with it, causes the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barto v. Armstrong World Indus., Inc.