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Originally Posted by @theCBE
Yes.. Paisley actually. My delict prof actually had a bottle of the same ginger beer with him when lectured on it the first day of class.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v._Stevenson
Donoghue (or M’Alister) v Stevenson (
[1932] A.C. 562, 1932 S.C. (H.L.) 31, [1932] All ER Rep 1) is one of the most famous cases in
British legal history. The decision of the
House of Lords founded the modern
tort of
negligence (
delict in
Scotland), both in
Scots law and across the world in
common law jurisdictions. The case originated in
Paisley, but the House of Lords declared that the principles of their judgment also applied in
English law. It is often referred to as the "Paisley snail" or the "snail in the bottle" case.
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On the evening of Sunday
26 August 1928, Mary Donoghue, née M’Alister 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 Café in the town's Wellmeadow Place. They were approached by the café owner, Francis Minghella, and Donoghue's friend ordered and paid for a pear and ice and an
iced drink. The owner brought the order and poured part of a 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. On doing so, it was claimed that the remains of a
snail in a state of decomposition plopped out of the bottle into the tumbler. Donoghue later complained of stomach pain, and her doctor diagnosed her as having
gastroenteritis. She also claimed to have suffered emotional distress as a result of the incident.