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.
Mercer is a city in McLean County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 86 at the 2000 census. Mercer was founded in 1905 along a now-decommissioned stretch of the Northern Pacific Railway. It lies on North Dakota Highway 200 between Underwood and McClusky.