Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1968-01-22

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MERRILL, Circuit Judge: This ease presents the question wheth-. er appellee Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., a manufacturer of Sabin polio vaccine, should be held to strict tort liability to one who took the drug and contracted polio as a result. Appellant Glynn Richard Davis took appellee’s Type III polio vaccine at a mass immunization clinic conducted in West Yellowstone, Montana, in March, 1963. At that time…

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