Jackson, ex dem. Reeves v. Topping

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that plaintiff could make an implied warranty claim against the manufacturer of hazardous chemicals, despite the absence of privity, because it was foreseeable that plaintiff’s employer was purchasing defendant’s products for use by its employees
• recognizing “exceptions to the privity requirement” “in cases involving foodstuffs, drugs and pesticides, [and] substances marketed with the knowledge the purchaser may not be the ultimate consumer of the product”
• “California [plaintiffs] cannot state a claim for implied warranty of merchantability absent privity of contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).