Scheer v. Detroit United Railway

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a finding of liability when the plaintiff became ill after drinking from a cola bottle in which a “ ‘wee, sleekit, cow’rin,’ tim’rous beastie’ [had] drowned” (quoting Robert Burns, To A Mouse)
• customer became ill after drinking from bottle containing a decomposing mouse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).