Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Crabtree

KNIGHT, Justice.

Suit to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff, as a proximate consequence of defendants’ negligence in selling to plaintiff’s wife some meat which was unfit for) human consumption, and which plaintiff ate, and as a result thereof was made “sick, sore and ill for a long period of time.”

The first and third counts of the complaint charged simple negligence in the sale of the meat, while the third count charged that the plaintiff’s said injuries were the proximate consequence of a wanton wrong on the part of the defendants in the sale…