Meg Is Shopping in Nate's Hardware Store When a Nail

question 59

Essay

Meg is shopping in Nate's Hardware Store when a nail gun in use by Ovid, one of the store's employees, fires without warning and hits Meg in the leg. Nate checks the gun and discovers that it was assembled improperly. Meg files a suit against Power Tools Inc., the maker of the gun, on the ground of strict product liability. What are the elements for an action based on strict product liability? In whose favor is the court likely to rule and why?

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Definitions:

Frequency Distribution

A statistical representation showing the number of observations within each given interval.

Sample

A subset of a population chosen for measurement, observation, or questioning to provide statistical information about the whole.

Frequency Distribution

The representation of data that shows the number of instances in which a variable takes each of its possible values.

Frequency Distribution

A summary of how often different values occur within a dataset, usually presented in a table or graphical format.