Gerkin v. Brown & Sehler Co.

This was an action of tort, wherein plaintiff recovered, in the circuit court of Livingston county, a judgment against defendant in the sum of $500, as compensation for injuries resulting to plaintiff from wearing a fur-lined coat with a dyed, or blended, collar, which, it is claimed, poisoned his neck, face, and hands, causing him great suffering, and seriously injured his health.

Plaintiff bought the coat, which had on it a dyed muskrat fur collar, on December 13,1910, from Young Bros., a firm of local retail dealers in Howell, Mich., where he resided. They bought it about a month previous,…