Court Opinion

ID: 9672778
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:00:13.319623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:18.239769
License: Public Domain

HYDE, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent from the opinion of COIL, C., herein, because I think the negligence of plaintiff and his father was the sole cause of plaintiff’s injury. I do not think the directions and statement of contents on the box of paint had anything to do with plaintiff’s father putting paint in plaintiff’s eye. Plaintiff’s father knew it would be harmful to put any kind of paint in plaintiff’s eye and he was not intending to use this paint for any such purpose. He did not put this paint in plaintiff’s eye because of anything in the directions or statement of contents; instead it got in plaintiff’s eye by his carelessness in handling the paint brush and carelessness in the way plaintiff and his father were working.
A manufacturer is subject to liability for bodily harm caused by the use of his product, in the manner and for the purpose for which it is supplied, if he fails to exercise reasonable care to give the user information which he has and which he should realize would be necessary to make such use safe. (Restatement of Torts, Sec. 394, Sec. 388 and 388 comment g.) However, it is my view, that this liability should not be extended to make a manufacturer liable for negligence of users in the way they use his product and it seems to me that this would have to be done to impose liability in this case. In other words, my view is that, while a manufacturer may be liable for injuries caused by the use of his product in the manner and for the purpose for which it is supplied, he is not liable for negligence of those who use it. In short, he warrants the safety of his product for its intended use but does not warrant that all users will act without negligence in using it.
I would reverse these judgments.