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.
Ackerly is a city in Dawson and Martin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 245 at the 2000 census. The town was named for Paul Ackerly, who founded it following the division of Slaughter Ranch into farming tracts.