Moran v. Faberge, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
332 A.2d 11 (1975)
Fifteen-year-old Randy Williams poured Faberge (defendant) cologne — highly flammable but bearing no flammability warning — under a lit candle's flame, causing a burst of flame that burned his friend Nancy Moran (plaintiff); Faberge acknowledged at trial that it knew of the danger of the cologne near an open flame. A jury found for Moran on her failure-to-warn claim, but the trial judge granted Faberge judgment notwithstanding the verdict, which the Maryland Court of Special Appeals affirmed; Moran appealed.
Whether, for a manufacturer to be liable for harm resulting from a consumer's use of a product based on the reasonable foreseeability of the use, the harm must be within the general field of danger foreseen by the manufacturer in the environment of the product's use.