Opinion
Gen. No. 43,037. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed June 16, 1944
FOOD, § 7 — sufficiency of evidence to justify verdicts for plaintiffs injured by eating unwholesome food served by defendant. In action for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained by plaintiffs as result of their having eaten allegedly unwholesome food, namely, shrimps, etc., served to them in drug store operated by defendant, wherein evidence showed without contradiction that plaintiffs suffered from food poisoning on day in question, and therefore only issue of fact for jury to determine, in so far as defendant's liability was concerned, was whether food served to them in defendant's drug store was proximate cause of their poisoning, held that jury's verdicts for plaintiffs were justified by evidence.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. JOHN F. BOLTON, Judge, presiding.
Judgments affirmed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the April term, 1944.
Lord, Bissell Kadyk, for appellant;
Henry Mitgang, for appellees.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed June 16, 1944.