Sec. 315. Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller's skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is, unless excluded or modified under IC 26-1-2-316, an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose.
Ind. Code § 26-1-2-315
Implied warranty; fitness for particular purpose
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 26-1-1-0.2 to 26-1-9.1-902 (630 sections).
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Royal Business Machines, Inc. v. Lorraine Corp. (1980)
Most recently applied in Indiana Farm Bureau as Subrogee of Chester Lemler, Garry Lemler, and Zak Lemler v. CNH Industrial America, LLC and Bane-Welker Equipment, LLC (July 2019)
Formerly: Acts 1963, c.317, s.2-315
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.