DONIGI v. AM. CYANAMID CO.


57 A.D.2d 760 (1977)

Laura Donigi, Respondent, v. American Cyanamid Company, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 12, 1977


The plaintiff sought damages for the permanent staining of her teeth caused when she was an infant by the use of Achromycin, a brand of tetracycline, developed and put into trade by the defendant. As the plaintiff herself states, the basic question at the trial was whether in 1958 the defendant knew or should have known that its product caused permanent teeth staining in children to have required it to have given warning in its literature and advertising. The jury's verdict...

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