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The dark bottle hid a snail and rewrote manufacturers' duty
A woman in a Paisley café drank from a ginger beer bottle with a decomposed snail-how did that bottle expose manufacturers' duty in negligence law?
The dark bottle hid a snail and rewrote manufacturers' duty
In this episode, we follow the evening that started with a shop assistant drinking ginger beer and ended with a legal battle that challenged who manufacturers owe a duty to. What happened in that opaque bottle, and how did it force courts to rethink responsibility to consumers?
Person: May Donoghue
Date: August 26, 1928
Location: Wellmeadow Café, Paisley, Scotland
Defendant: David…
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