Mr. MacPhearson was injured when a wheel on his new Buick shattered, he lost control, and was injured in the resulting crash. He sued Buick Motors, whose defense was that the resulting injuries were the responsibility of either the Buick Car Dealer who sold him the car, or the manufacturer of the wheel. The court found that as the producer of the final complete product, Buick was in the best position to test and identify any problems with the complete product. Resulting from this famous case, the courts developed the theory of “Strict Liability”, holding that the producer of the final consumer product was in the best position to test and determine if a dangerous abnormality existed in the product. Given the legal standard of Strict Product
