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SHARKEY v. STERLING DRUG, INC.

No. CA 91 0890.

600 So.2d 701 (1992)

Wilford Knighton SHARKEY, Sr., Individually and as Legal Tutor of the Estate of Sherry Lynn Fugler, and Doris McDaniel Sharkey, Individually and as Legal Undertutrix of the Estate of Sherry Lynn Fugler v. STERLING DRUG, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 23, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul H. Dué, Baton Rouge, and Joseph Simpson, Amite, for plaintiff-appellant Wilford Sharkey, etc.

Lawrence S. Kullman, New Orleans, and Leonard A. Blackwell, III, Gulfport, Miss., for plaintiff.

John Phelps Hammond, James B. Irwin, New Orleans, Duncan S. Kemp, III, Hammond, and Kathryn M. Forgie, Santa Monica, Cal., for defendant-appellant Sterling Drug, Inc.

Franklin D. Beahm and Robert Ford, New Orleans, for Evans Ray Glasgow.

Mack E. Barham, Robert E. Arceneaux, New Orleans, for appellant.

Before LOTTINGER, EDWARDS and LeBLANC, JJ.

EDWARDS, Judge.

In October, 1981, Sherry Fugler, aged five, ingested adult strength Bayer aspirin and contracted Reye's Syndrome. As a result of the illness, the child suffered severe permanent brain damage resulting in moderate mental retardation. This action, filed on behalf of the child by her maternal grandparents, Doris and Wilford Sharkey, is a claim in products liability against Sterling Drug, Inc. (Sterling), and a claim in redhibition and negligence against...

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