The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 7, Problem 1IS
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Case summary: The company R manufactures tire rims and sells it to the company S that installs them on cars. One set of rims was defective and was installed on the car by the company S without any inspection. Then, the car with the defective rims was sold to the company T that further sold the car to the person U. The car got involved in an accident due to the defective rims and the person U got injured.
To find: Liability of the company S.
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