WINE IN ENGLAND.
(From the European Mail.) As showing what rubbish is sold under the name of wine, I may refer to a case which came before a jury at the Exeter County Court the other day. The plaintiff, a gentleman living near the city, sued a hotelkeeper for £l3, value of an octave cask of wine. After drinking some of the liquid the plaintiff felt a pain in the neck. He persuaded himself, however, that the wine could not have caused this, and went on drinking it, when he became ill. Some of the wine was sent to London for analysis. The analyst returned it, saying it was his belief that it was not wine at all, but a mixture of various ingredients. The defendant was consequently asked to take the “wine” back, but he said he bought it of a respectable firm in Exeter, and refused to receive it, hence the action, which when it first came before the judge resulted in a verdict for defendant. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with costs.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 197, 26 January 1875, Page 3
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178WINE IN ENGLAND. Globe, Volume II, Issue 197, 26 January 1875, Page 3
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