Stanley Home Products Co. v. Holmes

WALKER, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Rankin County, Mississippi, overruling appellant’s motion to set *919aside a default judgment taken against it in the amount of $5,000. We affirm on condition that appellee accept a remittitur in the amount of $2,000.

On or about February 10, 1973, the plaintiff, Evelyn Faye Holmes, was injured when using a can of oven cleaner manufactured and sold to her by the appellant, Stanley Home Products Company. Appel-lee alleged in her declaration that she was using the oven cleaner according to the directions on the can; that after…