Billingsley v. Kline Cloak Co.

Defendants are merchants in Kansas City dealing extensively in women’s clothing, including hats and shoes, as well as articles of female adornment usually kept in large retail establishments. Plaintiff and her newly married husband, one “Doctor” Ekstrom, went into the store on the 23rd of December, 1914, when she purchased goods for herself amounting to the sum of $178, which she put on in one of defendant’s dressing rooms. Her husband paid for these in checks which were ascertained to be fraudulent and “bog-us” before they left the building and they were both arrested, taken to the police…