ALIOTO v. MARSHALL FIELD'S & CO.

No. 95-2139.

77 F.3d 934 (1996)

Lynn ALIOTO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARSHALL FIELD'S & COMPANY, a foreign corporation, and ABC Insurance Company, a fictitious insurance corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perry H. Friesler (argued), Davis & Kuelthau, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Douglas L. Prochnow, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, IL, Thomas N. Klug, Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, Milwaukee, WI, David F. Pardys (argued), Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Waukegan, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and LAY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

On February 2, 1988, while lunching at Marshall Field's in Skokie, Illinois, Lynn Alioto bit into a piece of glass "about the size of the bottom of a soda bottle," which had been buried in her pasta salad.1 In a complaint filed on February 5, 1990, Alioto alleged numerous resulting injuries, including "several broken teeth, pain in her face, ears and neck, dizziness, ringing in her ears, shifting of...

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