Edwards v. Hop Sin, Inc.

OPINION

KNOPF, Judge.

In November 1998, Ernest Edwards ate raw oysters from the seafood bar at China Town restaurant on the Outer Loop in Louisville. By the next day he had become ill with what proved to be septicemia, a bacterial invasion of his blood stream. The bacterium was Vibrio vulnificus, an organism naturally occurring in sea water and commonly found in oysters and other marine filter feeders. In May 1999 Edwards and his wife brought suit against the owner of the restaurant, Hop Sin, Inc. 1 They alleged that China Town’s raw oysters were the source of Ernest’s infection and that the…