Geoff's fiancée, Susan, comes to meet his parents for the weekend. On Saturday morning, while using Geoff's mother's hair dryer, the blower short-circuits sending sparks across the guest room. Susan's angora sweater and her hands are covered with tiny burns. Susan's mother is a lawyer and wants her to sue the seller of the dryer for breach of warranty. Can she?
a. No, because horizontal privity would extend only to members of the family.
b. No, because privity would require that Geoff's mother sue.
c. Yes, since she is a guest in the home of the buyer, the warranties would extend to her in most states.
d. Yes, since under the Code all reasonable users are protected from injury.
c
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