Brown v. Godefroy Manufacturing Co.

In plaintiff’s case against defendant Hersch Chemists, Inc., a retailer, it was established solely by reason of the retailer’s default in responding to plaintiff’s demand for admissions, that the dye herein in question contained a chemical called paraphenylenediamine, a poison that was the competent producing cause of decedent’s injuries. Counsel for defendant Progressive Drug Co., Inc., the jobber, against whom the retailer had made a claim over, properly objected that the retailer’s default was not binding on the jobber and plaintiff’s counsel admitted that plaintiff had “ no case ” against…