Phillips v. Harvey Co.

The Plaintiff and Plaintiff in Error is Mrs. C. T. Phillips, and the Defendant and Defendant in Error is the Harvey Company, a department store in Nashville. Plaintiff filed her declaration against the Defendant in the Davidson County Circuit Court, seeking damages for personal injuries in the amount of $25,000'. The declaration alleged that the Plaintiff went to the ladies department of Defendant’s department store to look at dresses, and possibly make a purchase from the Defendant; that the Defendant had in its store, a dress displayed on a mannequin mounted on a stand; that said mannequin…