Swift & Co. v. Hawkins

Appellee recovered judgment for damages for an illness shown to have been caused by eating cheese which contained, embedded therein, the decomposed or moulded bodies of flies. The cheese was purchased by appellee from a local merchant who had procured it from a neighboring wholesaler who had purchased it from the appellant. The case is of that class wherein the courts must exercise more than the ordinary scrutiny because of the danger of fabrication and imposition. But on the record now before us, the proof is amply made, two of the witnesses being the merchant who sold the cheese, and the…