IN RE IZZO

Docket No. 18, Calendar No. 46,596.

358 Mich. 101 (1959)

99 N.W.2d 625

In re IZZO. IZZO v. PURCELL.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maiullo & Maiullo (Joseph A. Maiullo, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Otto & Otto (Howard S. Otto, of counsel), for defendants.


VOELKER, J.

During July, 1944, Jacqueline Izzo, then aged 6, was playing with some other children. She was wearing a cowboy suit made of some sort of synthetic material. This garment somehow caught fire; the child was badly burned; and as a result she lost both legs at the hips and became permanently crippled. Over 3 years later her father learned that a judgment for $60,000 had been obtained in New York on behalf of a child who had been severely burned while wearing...

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