BRAUN v. ROUX DISTRIBUTING COMPANY

No. 45770.

312 S.W.2d 758 (1958)

Vernell BRAUN, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ROUX DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rexford H. Caruthers, H. Jackson Daniel, Husch, Eppenberger, Donohue, Elson & Jones, Arthur J. Freund, St. Louis, for plaintiff-respondent.

Moser, Marsalek, Carpenter, Cleary, Jaeckel & Hamilton, G. W. Marsalek, St. Louis, William J. Hayes, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

Upon the allegation of negligence in failure to warn of the presence of a toxic ingredient, paraphenylenediamine, in its hair dye, resulting in allergic periarteritis nodosa, the plaintiff, Vernell Braun, has recovered a judgment against the distributor, Roux Distributing Company, in the sum of $85,000.

Mrs. Braun, age 38 in 1956, is a housewife, the mother of two children, ages five and three...

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