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Products Liability Keyed Owen, 8th Ed.
Williams v. RCA Corp.
Citation:
376 N.E.2d 37 (1978)Facts
The plaintiff, E. Juan Ricco Williams, was employed as a security guard by an investigative service. His employer provided him with a two-way portable receiver manufactured by the defendant, RCA Corporation. While watching a restaurant, Williams observed a robbery in progress and attempted to use the receiver to call for backup from automobile patrols in the area, following his employer’s instructions. Unknown to Williams, the receiver was defective and did not function. When Williams attempted to apprehend the robber without assistance, he was wounded. Williams filed a strict liability complaint alleging that defects in the receiver rendered it unreasonably dangerous, that these defects existed when the receiver left RCA’s control, and that the defective condition proximately caused his injuries.
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