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.
Sheldon is a city in Ransom County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 135 at the 2000 census. Sheldon was founded in 1882. The city is named after an early landowner. In 1906, a controversial artesian well was drilled in the community.