Bonker v. Ingersoll Products Corporation

ALDRICH, District Judge.

The plaintiff, while living with her mother in Pennsylvania, ate some of the defendant’s canned “Boneless Chicken Fricassee” and-was severely injured by swallowing a piece of bone. The chicken had been bought by the mother from a local grocer, who, in turn, had bought it several years before direct from the defendant, a Massachusetts manufacturer. The mother testified she had been persuaded to buy by the label, and the plaintiff testified she had seen the label while her mother was preparing the meal.

The plaintiff ate the chicken and was injured on April 2, 1952.…