Sec. 318. A seller's warranty whether express or implied extends to any natural person who is in the family or household of his buyer or who is a guest in his home if it is reasonable to expect that such person may use, consume or be affected by the goods and who is injured in person by breach of the warranty. A seller may not exclude or limit the operation of this section.
Ind. Code § 26-1-2-318
Third party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 26-1-1-0.2 to 26-1-9.1-902 (630 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Corbin v. Coleco Industries, Inc. (1984)
Most recently applied in 90 F. Supp. 3d 919 - In re Conagra Foods, Inc. (February 2015)
Formerly: Acts 1963, c.317, s.2-318.
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.