Cheney v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc.

ORDER

EDENFIELD, District Judge.

In this diversity case the plaintiff sues the defendant for damages from a pulmonary embolism allegedly suffered by taking a medicinal compound called “Norinyl”, which she alleges was negligently manufactured and distributed by the defendant and which was prescribed for plaintiff by her physician on or about the last week of December, 1964. She alleges that the pulmonary embolism developed on the 26th day of April, 1965, and this suit was filed on the 25th day of April, 1967. The defendant has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint on the ground that it appears…