Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Rees

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Hall.

The parties appear here in reverse order to their appearance in the trial court. We refer to them as Georgia and Safeway.

On February 10, 1960, Georgia filed her complaint in the trial court alleging that on or about January 25, 1959, she purchased a package of cheese from Safeway; “that said cheese contained a foreign substance, namely, numerous small chunks of wire and was unfit for human consumption”; that she ate some of the cheese and as a result suffered damage to her intestinal tract; “that the foreign substance in said cheese caused plaintiff [Georgia] to…