The Fall of the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer)

Abstract

than eight major breaches in the main wall, all of them still stoutly defended. 4 Then came the Henningsen case.Chrysler made an automobile and sold it to the dealer Bloomfield.Bloomfield resold it to Hen-4.Of all the decisions against manufacturers which attack privity and appear to take the step from food to mechanical products, none has the untainted basis of Henningsen.The most frequently cited precursor of Henningsen, Di Vello v. Gardner Machine Co., [46 Ohio Op. 161, 102 N.E.2d 289 (C.P. 1951