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.
Carleton is a village in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,562 at the 2000 census. Carleton, which was named after popular Michigan poet Will Carleton, was plated in 1872 and incorporated into a village in 1911. The village is located within Ash Township and is served by Airport Community Schools.