French Dry-Cleaning Co. v. Clay

1. Where the issue is one as to the monetary amount of the damage to certain materials, as curtains and draperies, alleged to have been caused by the handling of them while being cleaned, evidence generally that the curtains, the number of which definitely appears, were torn and all ruffles thereon pulled and torn to such an extent that the curtains could not be used, that prior to the damage the value of the curtains was a stated amount, and that afterwards the value of each pair of curtains, in its damaged condition, was a stated amount, furnishes sufficient data from which the damage can…