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GOTTFRIED v. AMERICAN CAN CO.

339 Pa.Super. 403 (1985)

489 A.2d 222

Sonia GOTTFRIED and Leonard Gottfried, H/W, Appellants, v. AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed March 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Kahn, Norristown, for appellants.

Ronald H. Sherr, Norristown, for appellee.

Before BROSKY, WIEAND and McEWEN, JJ.

WIEAND, Judge:

Sonia Gottfried cut her hand while opening a can of sunflower nuts. In an action against American Can Company,1 the manufacturer of the can, she contended that the can had been defectively manufactured and/or designed.2 A jury found that Mrs. Gottfried's injury had not been caused by a defect in the can but because of her own act of misuse in permitting her hand to come into contact with the...

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