Legal Opinion
Poplar v. Bourjois, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 21, 1947Published
1Opinion of the CourtVan Voorhis, J.
Defendant Bourjois, Inc., appeals from a judgment establishing its liability in negligence for the loss of a finger by plaintiff Myrtle B. Poplar. She pricked her finger on the point of a metal star which decorated a box of cosmetics that her husband had given to her which he had bought at a retail store in Maryland. It became infected with hemolytic streptococcus, usually a fatal germ, which her doctor said would have been fatal in this instance except for sulfanilimide, but she recovered after a critical illness. Appellant is a manufacturer of perfumery and cosmetics. It purchased the box…
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