ISSUE:
Did the manufacturer owe any duty of care even with the absence of contractual relations?
RULE:
One must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which one can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure one's neighbour. A neighbour is one who is so closely and directly affected by one's act that one ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when one is directing their mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.