Chaddock v. Tabor

Plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant in the circuit court, from which judgment defendant appeals.

When the defendant was nine years and seven months old, he was using an airgun. A shot from this gun struck the plaintiff in the eye, and inflicted such injuries that it became necessary to remove the eye. It was the claim of the plaintiff that defendant had arrived at such years of maturity that, if negligent in the use of the gun, he was liable for the injury done the plaintiff, and that he was negligent in the use of the gun. It is the claim of the defendant that, under the…