Howard's Cleaners v. Munsey

Steele Hays, Justice.

In this action to recover damages for drapes which shrank during cleaning, Mrs. Rita Munsey testified that after consulting several cleaning firms she gave three sets of drapes to Howard’s Cleaners to be cleaned. Two sets of drapes were cleaned satisfactorily, but one set shrank some four or five inches and Howard’s efforts to correct the problem were not successful.

The Munseys filed suit and in a bench trial the circuit court awarded judgment in the sum of $2,120.60. Howard’s has appealed on the premise that it was error for the trial judge to find Howard’s liable when…