strict liability

Question 1

situtaions

Answer 1

1. owner of a wild animal or an abnormally dangerous domestic animal
2. engaged in abnromally dangeorus activitiy - creates a foreseeable risk of serious harm even when reasonable care is exercised (think explosive or toxic)

Question 2

Liability

Answer 2

the harm that results must be the kind of danger that makes the animal or activity abnormally dangerous

Question 3

strict liability and products

Answer 3

D must be a merchant

tpes of defects

1. manufacturing defect - just the one bad product
2. design defect - cost of design outweighs the benefits such that a reasonbl merchant wouldn’t put it on the market, no claim. must show that ther’es another design, it’s economically feasibale and does’n tmake the product difficult to use.
3. information defect - residual risks that can’t be designed away and the risk is not obvious or apparent to the users