Evans v. La Crosse Laundry & Cleaning Co.

The facts in this case are not in any serious controversy. Defendant is engaged in the laundry and dry-cleaning business. Mr. and Mrs. Evans and an adult son lived together in La Crosse. . The spn had asked plaintiff to send a pair of trousers for dry cleaning and she sent them to defendant. The son was about to leave on vacation and the garment had not been returned. On July 8, 1944, plaintiff inquired of the neighborhood branch of the laundry as to the whereabouts of the trousers and was directed to the central office, a place to which she had never theretofore gone. Mr. Evans dropped…