# Leichtamer v. American Motors Corp.

> Ohio Supreme Court · August 5, 1981 · 67 Ohio St. 2d 456

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6757361

## Case

- **Full name:** Leichtamer v. American Motors Corp.
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 5, 1981
- **Citations:** 67 Ohio St. 2d 456; 21 Ohio Op. 3d 285; 424 N.E.2d 568; 1981 Ohio LEXIS 602
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Locher
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Damages, Having, Holmes, Locher, Sweeney, That
- **Cited by:** 161 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that comment j to section 402A of the Restatement provides that a warning or directions as to the use of a product may prevent it from being unreasonably dangerous
- rejecting argument that negligence and strict liability were equivalent theories of recovery in design defect action
- declining to address admissibility of testimony when no objection raised to trial court

## Opinion text

Locher, J.,
concurs in paragraphs one and two of the syllabus and in the judgment in relation thereto, but dissents from paragraph three of the syllabus and from the judgment relating thereto.
P. Brown and Holmes, JJ., dissent.

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