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.
Ellerslie is an unincorporated town in Allegany County, Maryland. The town lies north of Cumberland next to the Pennsylvania-Maryland State Line. Ellerslie is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'.