Joffre v. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.

Appellant, Miss Marie Jane Joffre, then a lieutenant in the Navy, had her Achilles tendon severed by a fragment of glass from a Canada Dry club soda bottle which shattered in a delicatessen store in the City of Washington, D. C. She sued the bottler of the Canada Dry sparkling water and the delicatessen in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case the trial judge directed a verdict for both defendants, and the appeal is from the judgments for costs that followed.

The negligence claimed of the bottler is the placing on the market of a product designed…