Ohio County Drug Co. v. Howard

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

From an attack of influenza, plaintiff, Mrs. Flora Howard, was confined to bed for four or five days in January 1919, after which she resumed her household duties *349as well as her duties as assistant to the superintendent of schools for Ohio county. 'She was not fully recovered, however, and continued to be extremely nervous and considerably run-down, until in April she developed neuralgia. Her physician then prescribed as a sedative a mixture of two ounces of penta bromide and one ounce of paraldahyde. The defendant drug company, in filling the…