Legal Opinion
O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided October 1, 1963No. 389PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Holden, J,
This cause has been certified here before trial to settle a jurisdictional question. The action is one of four suits instituted by the plaintiff and her husband against Comstock Foods, Inc., a New York corporation. All of the actions are product liability cases in which the particular claimants seek to recover for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff from the presence of a piece of glass in a can of beans prepared and packed by the defendant in Newark, New York.
How the product came to be distributed in Vermont does not appear. The complaint tells us only…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.Illinois Supreme Court · 1961
- Smyth v. Twin State Improvement Corp.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1951
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- Phillips v. Anchor Hocking Glass CorporationArizona Supreme Court · 1966
- Elizabeth Taylor v. Portland Paramount CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
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