The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781305967304
Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case summary: A person Y is a worker at a restaurant. He used a drain cleaner called L for unclogging a floor drain in the kitchen. The product L contained crystalline sodium hydroxide which was potentially harmonious in nature. The warning label on the product mentioned a few instructions that Y overlooked and it resulted into liquid splashing on his face.

To find :Whether the argument presented by Y is convincing.

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