Eckerd's, Inc. v. McGhee

The above-styled two cases were tried together by consent in the circuit court of Hamilton county, and have been brought to this court in one transcript and heard together here.

In one of the eases, Martha McGhee, a minor suing by her father as next friend, sued Eckerd’s, Inc., to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by her as the result of swallowing certain poisons, viz., eight or nine bichloride of mercury tablets and a bottle of tincture of iodine which she had purchased from the defendant.

In the other of the two cases, W. E. McGhee, the father of said Martha McGhee, sued the…