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.
Mountain City is a small unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States. This ghost town on State Route 225, approximately 16 miles south of the Idaho border, it is situated on the Owyhee River at an elevation of approximately 5,620 feet.