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.
Romney is an unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County in the U.S. state of Indiana. Originally named Columbia, Romney received its present name from the community of Romney in West Virginia. It has a well known equestrian facility, Foxton Farm, that was once used for fox hunting, but now houses the Equestrian program at Purdue University and stables the polo ponies of the Purdue Polo Club. The community is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.