Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 AC 562 UKHL 100. Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Rich 2003 174 FLR 128. Torts Law Law Notes Study Notes In 1932 Mrs Donoghue was shellshocked when she found a mollusc in her drink. . - The bottle was opaque and when she poured the contents into her glass she noticed a decomposed snail in the bottom. Rogers v Whitaker 1992 175 CLR 479. Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Vines 2003 182 FLR 405. 2 Negligence is defined as A tort consisting of the breach of a duty of care resulting in damage to the claimant. In the ensuing years her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair violent emotion and obsession with death. Author and schoolmaster John Entick was suspected of writing a libellous pamphlet against the government. Also known as the Paisley Snail or Snail in the Bottle cas...