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.
Spade is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lamb County, Texas, United States. The population was 100 at the 2000 census. To the north of Spade is the Triple Arrow Ranch, a 1,000-acre spread with historic relics owned by Lamb County Commissioner's Court Judge William A. Anderson, Jr. , and his wife, LeNora Jo Thompson.