Fuhs v. Barber

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Marie Fuhs, a housewife, twenty-eight years of age, contracted a skin irritation from poison ivy, in May, 1932. It was under her chin and extended well down upon her chest. She consulted Doctor Anderson, and he prescribed as a remedy the use of sugar of lead, which she procured at a drug store. When that sugar of lead had been applied as the doctor prescribed, she went to the store of the defendant, P. B. Barber, to obtain another prescription of sugar of lead. After making the purchase of the sugar of lead and while Mr. Barber was…