Bernice Sheptur v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing Co., an Ohio Corporation

The sole question presented in this appeal is whether the District Court committed reversible error in directing a verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiff's 1 testimony.

Plaintiff filed an action daiming that she had suffered an injury from the use of Tide, a well-known detergent. Plaintiff was employed as dishwasher at CIo-verdale Farms, a restaurant in Garden City, Michigan. While plaintiff’s testimony as to dates is somewhat vague, her employment began around April 26, 1952. The work required plaintiff to wash dishes by hand in heated water for eight hours a day six days a week. The…