LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ginger Beer, Gastroenteritis, Nervous Shock In English Law
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On the evening of sunday, august 26, 1928, may donoghue boarded a tram in glasgow for the thirty-minute journey to paisley. At around ten minutes to nine, she and a friend took their seats in the wellmeadow caf in the town"s wellmeadow place. They were approached by the caf owner, francis minchella, and donoghue"s friend ordered and paid for a pear and ice and an ice-cream drink. The owner brought the order and poured part of an opaque bottle of ginger beer into a tumbler containing ice cream. Donoghue drank some of the contents and her friend lifted the bottle to pour the remainder of the ginger beer into the tumbler. It was claimed that the remains of a snail in a state of decomposition dropped out of the bottle into the tumbler. Donoghue later complained of stomach pain and her doctor diagnosed her as having gastroenteritis and being in a state of severe shock.
