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.
Kents Hill is an unincorporated village in the northwest corner of the town of Readfield, Maine, east of the town of Fayette, with which the village shares a zip code (04349). The village's name comes from the farmer who owned the land before Luther Sampson bought it to start Kents Hill School.