Meditz v. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.

On October 16, 1936, the plaintiff bought a package of cigarettes wrapped in cellophane and sealed with the government tax stamp. On the following day, about one p. m., the plaintiff broke the cellophane covering and the government stamp and gave to her sister a cigarette from the package which she had purchased. She then took one of the cigarettes herself. The plaintiff smoked the cigarette about half way through when an explosion occurred, as she describes it, like a fire cracker, and burned both her cheeks, nose and eyebrows. Plaintiff called in a doctor who gave her balm to alleviate the…