Boyd v. J. C. Penny Co.

OTT, Judge.

The plaintiff asks for damages in the sum of $1,532.98 which she claims to have sustained from wearing a dress purchased by her from defendant’s store in Hammond on October 16, 1937, for which dress she paid the sum of $2.98. She alleges that the defendant company is engaged in the business of selling clothing and other wearing apparel; that the day following that on which she purchased the said dress, she wore the dress on an automobile trip, and about two hours after she put on the dress and while she was some distance from home, she began to feel a severe irritation and itching…