ADAMS v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO.

No. 607.

112 S.E.2d 92 (1960)

251 N.C. 565

C. Robert ADAMS v. GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rollins & Rollins, Greensboro, for plaintiff, appellant.

McLendon, Brim, Holderness & Brooks by L. P. McLendon, Jr., and C. T. Leonard, Jr., Greensboro, for defendant, appellee.


PARKER, Justice.

On 10 November 1958, plaintiff bought from one of defendant's stores a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes in a sealed package. On the morning of 14 November 1958, while eating in his home a bowl of corn flakes taken from this package, he bit down on something very hard, breaking off part of an eyetooth. The breaking of the tooth exposed a nerve, causing him considerable pain. The same morning he had the rest of the tooth extracted.

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