Scruggins v. Jones

Opinion op the Court by

Judge MoCandless

Affirming.

Appellant, Mrs. Otia Scruggins, was recovering from a case of influenza. Within the previous ten years she had undergone several surgical operations which had affected her nervous system and she was in a state of general debility. Her physician prescribed sea food, particularly shrimp, as a diet. Her son purchased a can of this from appellees, who were conducting a grocery.

Claiming that the shrimp was poisonous and impure ; that she ate of it and was thereby made sick and *637permanently injured she sued appellees and the firm packing the shrimp…