Reed v. Swift & Co.

REEVES, Chief Judge.

This case has been before the court for a long time. Sundry motions have been heretofore filed and decided by the court. Under the authorities the plaintiff was required so to amend her complaint as to make it sound in tort and not in contract. D.C., 14 F.R.D. 145. This has been done.

Plaintiff’s amended complaint, however, asserts that she was furnished deleterious substance known as “Boxcar Laundry Powder”, and that it was manufactured by the defendant for the use to which she put it. The pertinent averments of the complaint are that such substance “contained inherent…