Brescia v. Ireland Coffee-Tea, Inc.

OPINION

DITTER, District Judge.

In this products liability case, plaintiff seeks á new trial on the grounds that portions of defendant’s summation and the court’s charge were unsupported by the evi-dencé. Despite the serious nature of her injuries, plaintiff’s motion must be refused.

Karen Brescia1 was badly hurt on October 10,1974, while working as a waitress at Casa Milano, Inc., a center-city Philadelphia restaurant, when a 55-cup coffee urn manufactured by defendant, West Bend Company,2 fell on her. The urn rested without any guard or restraining device on a small, three-foot high…