Moore v. Lederle Laboratories

The present appeal requires a determination of a party’s right to object to testimony contained in a deposition offered at trial and is precipitated by the following sequence of events.

Within nine weeks from birth, plaintiff was diagnosed as having the disease cystic fibrosis. He received curative and preventive treatment by the intermittent administration of two antibiotic drugs manufactured by defendant until being placed upon different drugs in 1964. As a consequence of this treatment, plaintiffs teeth became permanently stained blue-black in color and structurally damaged. Plaintiff…