Zorger v. Hillman's

Plaintiff alleged that she ate some pork bought at defendant’s store which gave her trichinosis; the jury found the defendant not guilty, and plaintiff appeals from the judgment on the verdict.

The gist of the defense was the testimony of physicians tending to show that plaintiff could not have com tracted trichinosis from this pork.

On the afternoon of September 26, 1931, plaintiff’s mother and father called at defendant’s store in Chicago and purchased a pork loin which was taken home, cut into chops and fried by the mother. Plaintiff says that at about eight o’clock on that same evening she…