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.
Bowmansville is a hamlet located in the Town of Lancaster in Erie County, New York, United States. The hamlet is named after Benjamin Bowman, the owner of sawmills on Ellicott Creek in the center of the hamlet.