All v. John Gerber Co.

Mrs. All sued the defendant for damages for personal injuries consisting of burns on her head suffered while defendants were administering a beauty treatment known as a “permanent wave”.

Her husband sued for loss of “her services, society, companionship and consortium”; for expenses incurred on account of the injury to his wife; and in effect for mental anguish suffered by him as a result of “witnessing the results of his wife’s painful injury” and mental anguish to be suffered in the future in being reminded constantly of his wife’s misfortune by the permanent scars.

The jury returned a…