Adams v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

On 10 November 1958, plaintiff bought from one of defendant’s stores a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in a sealed package. On the morning of 14 November 1958, while eating in his home ■a bowl of com flakes taken from this package, he bit down on something very hard, breaking off part of an eyetooth. The breaking of the tooth exposed a nerve, causing him considerable pain. The same morning he had the rest of the tooth extracted.

When he bit on this object, he spit it out, examined it, and found that it was .a little brow-n, hard, crystal-like object. A chemical analysis of this object showed that…