Howes v. Rose

The appellee, plaintiff below, in her complaint alleged that she was ill and in need of medicine, and applied to the appellants, defendants below, at their place of business, for Rochelle salts, a safe and harmless medicine; that instead of furnishing her said salts, the defendants carelessly and negligently furnished, sold and delivered to her, instead thereof, a quantity of Tartaric acid, a noxious, baneful and poisonous drug, which she administered to herself, believing the same to he Rochelle salts, and suffered pain and injury in consequence thereof.

The special verdict found…