Bob Is Shopping in Carl's Hardware Store When a Nail

question 37

Essay

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

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Definitions:

Factory Overhead Applied

The allocation of estimated factory overhead costs to individual units of production.

Depreciation Expenses

The systematic allocation of the depreciable amount of an asset over its useful life to account for wear and tear, obsolescence, or decay.

Equivalent Units

A concept in cost accounting used to express the amount of work done by incomplete units in terms of fully completed units.

Average Cost Method

An inventory costing method that determines the cost of goods sold and ending inventory based on the average cost of all similar items available during the period.