Izzo v. Purcell

' Voelker, J.

During July, 1944, Jacqueline Izzo, then aged 6, was playing with some other children. She was wearing a cowboy suit made of some sort of synthetic material. This garment somehow caught fire; the child was badly burned; and as a result she lost both legs at the hips and became permanently crippled. Over 3 years later her father learned that a judgment for $60,000 had been obtained in New York on behalf of a child who had been severely burned while wearing a similar cowboy suit made and distributed by the same people. He thereupon visited the defendant law firm in Saginaw to…