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.
Tyner, also called Center Hill, is an unincorporated community in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States about 20 miles (32 km) away from Elizabeth City and also about 100 miles (160 km) from Virginia Beach, Virginia.