Peerless Dry Cleaning Co. v. Carmack

Mrs. Carmack started this suit before a Justice of the Peace against the Peerless Dry Cleaning Company, to recover for damage sustained to a valuable fur coat entrusted to the cleaners to cleanse and return. The'warrant charges:

‘ ‘ For a consideration defendant accepted and contracted and agreed to clean her lamb, blue fox trimmed, coat but negligently and wrongfully ruined and destroyed it, and refused to pay therefor, to- her damage. ’ ’

The case was carried to the circuit court where it was heard by the Circuit Judge, without the intervention of a jury, and a judgment of $150 entered in…