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*562 M'Alister (or Donoghue) (Pauper) Appellant; v Stevenson Respondent.
Positive/Neutral Judicial Consideration
Court
House of Lords (Scotland)
Judgment Date
26 May 1932
Report Citation
[1932] A.C. 562  
House of Lords
Lord Buckmaster , Lord Atkin , Lord Tomlin , Lord Thankerton , and Lord Macmillan.
1932 May 26.
Negligence—Liability of Manufacturer to ultimate Consumer—Article of Food—Defect likely to cause Injury to Health.
By Scots and English law alike the manufacturer of an article of food, medicine or the like, sold by him to a distributor in circumstances which prevent the distributor or the ultimate purchaser or consumer from discovering by inspection any defect, is under a legal duty to the ultimate purchaser or consumer to take reasonable care that the article is free from defect likely to cause injury to health:-
So held, by Lord Atkin, Lord Thankerton and Lord Macmillan; Lord Buckmaster and Lord Tomlin dissenting.
George v. Skivington (1869) L. R. 5 Ex. 1 approved.
Dicta of Brett M.R. in Heaven v. Pender (1883) 11 Q. B. D. 503, 509-11 considered.
Mullen v. Barr & Co., Ld., and M'Gowan v. Barr & Co., Ld., 1929 S. C. 461 overruled.
APPEAL against an interlocutor of the Second Division of the Court of Session in Scotland recalling an interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary (Lord Moncrieff).
By an action brought in the Court of Session the appellant, who was a shop assistant, sought to recover damages from the respondent, who was a manufacturer of aerated waters, for injuries she suffered as a result of consuming part of the contents of a bottle of ginger-beer which had been manufactured by the respondent, and which contained the decomposed remains of a snail. The appellant by her condescendence averred that the bottle of ginger-beer was purchased for the appellant by a friend in a café at Paisley, which was occupied by one Minchella; that the bottle was made of dark opaque glass and that the appellant had no reason to suspect that it contained anything but pure ginger

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