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.
Harleton is an unincorporated town located at the intersection of Farm Roads 1968 and 450 and State Highway 154, fifteen miles northwest of Marshall in northwestern Harrison County, Texas, United States.