Pearlman v. Garrod Shoe Co.

This action is brought to recover damages arising out of the death of Eunice Pearlman. Defendant was a retailer of shoes. It represented, by means of advertising and orally at its store, that the shoes which it sold marked the latest step in the progress of shoe making and embodied every proven principle of health, of fit and of orthopedic design. On February 1, 1930, the deceased, a child of eight years of age, accompanied her mother to defendant’s store where she was fitted with a pair of shoes so advertised and so represented. The salesman was told that the child was under special training…