Rosenbaum v. Shoffner

This is an action for damages for - the death of the plaintiff’s husband.- There was trial before the Court and jury, and a verdict and judgment for $10,000, and the defendant has appealed, and assigned errors. The facts, so far as material, are that the plaintiff’s husband, Daniel P. Shoffner, went into the storehouse of the defendant, Rosenbaum, on Main Street, in the city of Memphis, for the purpose of making some purchases, and was examining a base burner stove, and talking about its cost with a salesman or clerk. He was estimating the quantity of pipe that would be required to set it up,…