· 9/9/1938
Mitchell-Powers Hardware Co. v. Eaton
Citations
- 171 Va. 255
- 198 S.E. 496
- 1938 Va. LEXIS 278
How courts have described this case
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- where manufacturer has duty to warn, warning must be in such form as to catch attention of reasonably prudent person
- manufacturer in failure-to-wam case liable when child drank furniture polish
- where the warning provided had not been “calculated to attract the user's attention, due to its position, size, and the coloring of its lettering, and… words used therein … to convey a conception of the true nature of the danger”
- substantively incompíete warning in very small print
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Judges: Gregory
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