Bilicki v. W. T. Grant Co.

The determinative question in this case is whether or not the plaintiffs had psittacosis. This was a question requiring expert testimony to be considered by the jury for a finding of fact at the trial.

Defendant W. T. Grant Company purchased parakeets from third-party, defendant Beniteau Bird Company and in turn sold one to the plaintiff wife. Upon bringing the bird home, she found that it was sickly and attempted to nurse it to health. Approximately three weeks later plaintiff wife became ill, showing symptoms of fever, cough and pneumonia. She entered Henry Ford Hospital with a preliminary…