BASKO v. STERLING DRUG, INC.

No. 578, Docket 32669.

416 F.2d 417 (1969)

Lydia BASKO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STERLING DRUG, INC., and Winthrop Laboratories, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan P. Ames, Stamford, Conn. (Helen F. Krause, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul V. McNamara, Bridgeport, Conn. (Donald J. St. John, Bridgeport, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before WATERMAN, SMITH and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In the field of drug marketing, as Professor Kessler writes in a thoughtful article, "defining the outer limits of strict liability presents us with most difficult questions of policy." Kessler, Products Liability, 76 Yale L.J. 887, 930 (1967). This case demands analysis of those "outer limits."

The plaintiff, Mrs. Lydia Basko, appeals from a judgment entered for the defendant drug...

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