Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Fontanet (also Fountain, Fountain Station, or Hunter) is an unincorporated community in central Nevins Township, Vigo County, Indiana, United States. It lies along Baldwin St. , northeast of the city of Terre Haute, the county seat of Vigo County. Its elevation is 614 feet (187 m), and it is located at 39°34′34″N 87°14′37″W / 39.57611°N 87.24361°W / 39.57611; -87.24361 (39.5761500, -87.2436276). Although Fontanet is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 47851. Fontanet is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. Each year on the last weekend in August, Fontanet enjoys the Annual Fontanet Bean Dinner Festival, a tradition stemming from a Civil War veterans' picnic first held in 1890. The festival was originally held on land near the DuPont Powder Mill. After the mill exploded in 1908, the picnic moved to the site known as Holloway Grove, donated by local landowner Bill Holloway.