Sloan v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. William C. Johns, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
Appellee recovered a judgment ag’ainst appellant for $500 in an action on the case for damages averred to have been sustained by her from eating part of the contents of a can of herring sold to appellee by appellant.
The declaration contains seven counts. Each count avers that appellant owned and operated a retail store in the city of Decatur, at which store appellant sold' to the public at retail, divers articles of merchandise, among which were canned articles of food. The first count pleads the statute of Illinois, which makes it unlawful for any person or corporation to sell any flesh of…
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