Tompkin v. American Brands, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• dismissing widow’s common law fraud claim because she could not establish that the decedent smoked because he relied on the defendant’s misrepresentations
• “the health risk from smoking, particularly the risk of lung cancer, was ‘common knowledge’ in 1950”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).