Scorpion v. American-Republican, Inc.

The plaintiff, a child eight years of age, picked up a wire on an areaway adjoining a public sidewalk and injured her eye with it. She brought this action charging the defendant with negligence in leaving the wire on the areaway. A verdict was rendered in her favor. The defendant appeals from the denial of a motion to set aside the verdict and from the judgment, assigning error in the finding of the plaintiff’s claims of proof and in the charge. The jury might have found the following facts:

The defendant is a newspaper publisher in Waterbury. It divided the city into districts where newsboys,…