O'Brien v. Fred Kroner Hardware Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. FIigbee, Circuit Judge. The substance of the lengthy complaint is as follows: Plaintiff is the mother of a boy, Adena Hopkins, who was killed October 22, 1919, then of the age of thirteen; that the father of the boy was dead and the mother would have been entitled to the earnings of the infant until his majority and had reason to expect assistance from him if he had lived until that period.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. FIigbee, Circuit Judge. The substance of the lengthy complaint is as follows: Plaintiff is the mother of a boy, Adena Hopkins, who was killed October 22, 1919, then of the age of thirteen; that the father of the boy was dead and the mother would have been entitled to the earnings of the infant until his majority and had reason to expect assistance from him if he had lived until that period. That the defendant, a Wisconsin corporation, is a wholesale and retail dealer in hardware and also deals in dynamite exploders or…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
It is to be gathered from the complaint that the pleader intends to charge that defendant’s negligence, if any, arises from leaving exposed on the ground near the door of defendant’s warehouse, either just within or just without the building, certain dynamite exploders or caps which were in tin containers, the containers being packed in sawdust in a wooden box; that such box was wholly exposed and accessible to children of tender years; and that such acts were “in violation of the law and statutes of the state of Wisconsin in such case made and provided *242and the ordinances of the city of La…
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- Horan v. Inhabitants of WatertownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Perry v. . Rochester Lime Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Hall v. . New York Telephone Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Mathis v. Granger Brick & Tile Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1915
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