Hazelton v. First National Stores, Inc.

In the eases of Mrs. Hazelton and the two children, the defendant’s motions for nonsuits should have been granted upon the ground that the statutory warranty of fitness did not extend to them. In the case of Howson v. Company, 87 N. H. 200, the question of the extent of such a warranty received careful consideration, and we there stated and applied the general rule “that warranties do not run in favor of any but an immediate purchaser.” It is true that, in that case, we were not called upon to decide whether, as an exception to that rule, a warranty of food known by the seller to be intended…