Hogan v. Hornbeck

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

— Reversing.

The appellant, Teresa Hogan, plaintiff below, brought this action against the appellee, Ethel R. Horn-beck, trading as French-Beauty Shoppe, to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained when she was given a permanent wave in the appellee’s shop in the fall of 1937. Miss Hogan alleged that, due to the negligence of the appellee’s agent, she suffered burns on the right side of her head which injured her “seriously, painfully and permanently.” Miss Hornbeck filed a general denial, a plea of voluntary assumption of risk, and subsequently, by…