Larsen v. State Savings & Loan Ass'n

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict granted in a jury trial by the circuit court against appellant Richard S, Larsen at the close of appellant’s case in a suit in which appellant seeks damages for an eye injury he incurred while opening a champagne bottle when the plastic stopper ejected spontaneously and struck him in the eye. The suit was in tort based on negligence and strict liability and was against appellant’s employer, State Savings and Loan Association, and defendants-appellees Manoa Pharmacy (the business which sold the champagne to State Savings), Spengler…