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.
Motley is a city in Cass and Morrison counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 585 at the 2000 census. The main part of Motley is located Morrison County; only a minor part of the city extends into Cass County. The Cass County portion of Motley is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.