Case Name: John Hopkins et al., Appellants and Respondents, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Vita Food Products, Inc., Defendant, and National Grocery Company, Respondent and Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1947-07-02
Citations: 297 N.Y. 546
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Hopkins et al., Appellants and Respondents, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Vita Food Products, Inc., Defendant, and National Grocery Company, Respondent and Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 297
Pages: 546–547

Head Matter:
John Hopkins et al., Appellants and Respondents, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Vita Food Products, Inc., Defendant, and National Grocery Company, Respondent and Appellant.
Argued May 22, 1947;
decided July 2, 1947.
A. Harold Frost and Bernard JenTcin for plaintiffs, appellants and respondents.
William L. Shumate for defendant, respondent and appellant.

Opinion:
Judgment modified by reversing so much thereof as permits recovery of $2,000 to plaintiff Addie Hopkins, and, as so modified, affirmed upon the ground that the evidence establishes that plaintiff wife was agent for plaintiff husband in purchasing the crab meat for the family and that, consequently, under the applicable law of New Jersey, the latter was the purchaser to whom alone the implied warranty of fitness runs. (See Stave v. Giant Food Arcade, 125 N. J. L. 512; Schlosser v. Goldberg, 123 N. J. L. 470; Auten v. Johnston, 115 N. J. L. 71, 75-76. See, also, Gimenez v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 264 N. Y. 390; Gearing v. Berkson, 223 Mass. 257; Hazelton v. First Nat. Stores, Inc., 88 N. H. 409.)
Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Thacheb, Dye and Fuld, JJ.