Bryant v. Askin & Marine Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

This is an action for $3,000 damages, actual and punitive, in which the plaintiff recovered a judgment of $2.72 actual damages and $300 punitive, growing out of the following facts:

It is difficult to accurately classify the action; the nearest approach to a classification appears to be that it is an action “on the situation.”

On November 21, 1925, the plaintiff, a young woman under age, who appears in the action by her guardian ad litem, went to the store of the defendant in Columbia, and purchased a coat for $16.98; as per the terms…