Walraven v. Sprague, Warner & Co.

The defendants’ principal contention on this appeal is that the court erred in failing to grant their motion for a directed verdict on the ground that the evidence does not admit of a finding that the cans of crab meat and tuna fish in question contained any contaminated or poisonous substance when the cans were sold by defendants. There was evidence that two 6 or 7-ounce cans of tuna fish and a like-sized can of crab meat, which Sprague, Warner & Company had sold to the Jackson Grocery Company, were purchased from it by Mrs. Virgil Glaves on April 16, 1936. That evening she took these cans,…