Buckley v. Arthur J. Hickey Family Laundry Co.

In this action of tort the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff after denial of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

The jury were warranted in finding the following facts: On October 31, 1923, the plaintiff, a boy a few days over five years of age, while playing in a vacant lot, was injured by steam issuing from a pipe, located about two feet, ten inches from the ground, which projected about ten or twelve inches from the side of a laundry building owned and operated by the defendant. This lot was used by the children of the neighborhood as a playground. On the morning of the…