Johnson v. Johnson Chemical Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bracken, J. P.
May a plaintiff who admittedly failed to read the warnings supplied by the manufacturer of a product recover damages based on the theory that the manufacturer’s warnings were inadequate? We hold that, under certain circumstances, a plaintiff may so recover.
On August 14, 1985, the plaintiff Julie Kono went to Bobby’s Department Store II on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, and purchased approximately six or seven cans of a product which she described alternatively as "La Bomba” or "King Roach Spray”. She intended to combat a roach infestation in her apartment in…
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