Lemire v. Garrard Drugs

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a summary judgment entered in the defendants’ behalf in Wayne County Circuit Court dismissing her product liability complaint with prejudice.

Plaintiff’s complaint averred: that plaintiff’s mother purchased Diethylstilbestrol (DES) from defendant Garrard Drugs while she was pregnant with plaintiff sometime in 1954 or 1955; that DES produces a cancerous condition of the cervix of the female offspring of women who use DES during pregnancy; that, as a result of defendant Garrard’s sale of DES to plaintiff’s mother, plaintiff developed a cancerous cervical…