Berry v. G. D. Searle & Co.

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• holding that U.C.C. limitations provision applied to breach of warranty action for personal injuries and privity between injured user and manufacturer of contraceptive was not required
• holding that the statute of limitations for a stroke caused by the drug Enovid begins to run on the date of the injury
• holding that privity was unnecessary when plaintiff alleged personal injuries resulting from a breach of an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose
• strict liability cause of action involving sale of contraceptive pill did not accrue when pill was manufactured, sold or consumed, but when plaintiff suffered stroke
• the statute of limitations in section 2 — 725(1) of the UCC applies to actions for personal injury predicated upon a theory of breach of warranty under the UCC
• wherein the plaintiff purchased birth control pills from Planned Parenthood and sued the manufacturer of the pills for breach of an implied warranty

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