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.
Hewitt is a city in Todd County, Minnesota, United States, along the Wing River. The population was 267 at the 2000 census. It was named in honor of Henry Hewitt, one of the first settlers to the area