MITCHELL

v.

NEW YORK

Citator

Cited By

• Dreiling v. Gen. Elec. Co., 511 F.2d 768 (5th Cir. 1975)
  …377 U.S. 943, 84 S.Ct. 1351, 12 L.Ed.2d 306; 391 F. 2d 97 (1968), overruled en banc 409 F. 2d 1166 (1969), cert, denied 1970, 397 U.S. 911, 90 S.Ct. 912, 25 L.Ed.2d 93; Lartigue v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 5 Cir. 1963, 317 F. 2d 19, cert. denied 375 U.S. 865, 84 S.Ct. 137, 11 L.Ed.2d 92. As indicated earlier in this Note the second issue submitted to the jury was that of strict liability. The concept followed was that set forth in Restatement of Torts, Second, Sec. 402(A), and particularly Comment g an…
• Ross v. Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., 328 F.2d 3 (8th Cir. 1964)
  …ts that its cigarettes are “reasonably wholesome or fit for human consumption,” and remanded for jury determination on the question of “reasonableness.” See also, Lartigue v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 5 Cir., 317 F. 2d 19 (1963), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 865, 84 S.Ct. 137, 11 L.Ed.2d 92 (1963); Pritchard v. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, 3 Cir., 295 F. 2d 292 (1961). . We liave been advised that the jury found that smoking defendant’s cigarettes was the cause or one of the causes of the cancer in pla…
• O'Hare v. Merck & Co., Inc., 381 F.2d 286 (8th Cir. 1967)
  …o. 444, 395 P. 2d 1007, 1011 (1964); Cudmore v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc., supra; Braun v. Roux Distributing Company, 312 S.W. 2d 758, 763-764 (Mo.1958); cf. Lartigue v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 317 F. 2d 19, 40 (5th Cir. 1963), cert, denied, 375 U.S. 865, 84 S.Ct. 137, 11 L.Ed.2d 92 (1963). A manufacturer is held to the skill of an expert in its particular field of endeavor, and is obligated to keep informed of scientific knowledge and discoveries concerning that field. Guffie v. Erie Strayer Compan…