Bethancourt v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Mary C. Bethancourt, instituted! this suit against the defendants, Seligman & Latz, Inc., the owner of the Antoine Beauty Salon,1 and its insurer, Employers Liability Assurance Corp., endeavoring to recover $6,656.00 representing damages which she incurred as the result of the application of a permanent wave which ruined her hair.

The defendants answered and admitted that the permanent wave was unsatisfactory; however, they asserted in defense thereof that the plaintiff was warned in advance that the result of the operation was unpredictable since her hair was bleached…