... to contain the remnants of a decomposed snail, and as a result became ill. The House of Lords ruled that the manufacturer did owe a duty of care to the consumer. The manufactures duty includes all products capable of causing damage. Therefore for example in Herschtal v Stewart and Arden Ltd [1940] it was shown for example that this included motor cars. However Lord Atkins in his judgement in Donoghue v Stevenson, did state that the duty extends to a 'manufacturer of products which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him, with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination.' This was illustrated in Grant v Australian knitting Mills Ltd [1936], where the plaintiff contracted dermatitis from the presence of too much sulphite found in a pair of new underpants, which he had not ...

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