Top court case of dead flies in water bottle

The Supreme Court of Canada is mulling over the case of a man suing a company for psychological damages he says he suffered after finding dead flies in his water bottle.

 

Martin Mustapha told reporters outside an Ottawa court Tuesday that he vomited after finding dead flies in his water bottle in 2001.
(CBC)

The court is examining whether Culligan, the company that supplies big blue water bottles used in home dispensers, had a duty of care to Waddah Mustapha and his family, and whether the psychiatric harm Mustapha suffered was foreseeable.

A decision is expected in six months.

Mustapha, speaking outside the Ottawa courtroom Tuesday, said he vomited when he and his wife spotted a whole fly and part of another fly in their unopened water bottle in November 2001. The couple was cleaning the water bottle's neck at their Windsor, Ont., home when they saw the insects.