Shaw v. Swift & Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs Iva Shaw and Edward Shaw, Sr., husband and wife, five of their minor children by Edward Shaw, Sr., their next friend, and Edward Shaw, Sr., as the administrator of the estate of Beverly Shaw, deceased, brought suit to recover damages for illnesses and one death alleged to have resulted from the consumption of chitterlings, a pork product, claiming that defendant Swift and Company sold the chitterlings to Altgeld Gardens Consumer Cooperative, Inc., a retail grocery store, which in turn sold them to plaintiff Iva…