Gebo v. Black Clawson Company

In Gebo v. Black Clawson Company, 92 NY2d 387 [1998] the defendant had built an embossing machine for its own use, its regular business being the manufacture and sale of paper. Some time later, in a one-time bulk sale the embossing machine was sold to a company one of whose employees caught his hand in the "nip point" of the machine and lost four fingers. The Court of Appeals held that this one-time sale, without more, did not make the defendant a manufacturer for the purposes of strict products liability especially since the embossing machine had been made for its own use and not for sale.