Jones v. Mercer Pie Co.

Four members of the W. H. Jones family at Dnnlap and two members of the Ollie Camp family at Dnnlap were poisoned, and thereby made violently ill, by the eating of a chocolate pie which had been baked by a bakery concern in Chattanooga known as the Mercer Pie Company, a partnership composed .of J. A. Mercer and Jim Abel. Each of-the sis persons who were poisoned instituted a suit for damages. They were consolidated into this case ■ At the close of the plaintiffs’ proof, the Circuit Judge overruled the motion of the defendant for a directed verdict, which motion was on the ground that “there…