Galbraith-Foxworth Lumber Co. v. Gerneth

LATTIMORE, Justice.

This is a suit for damages to the parents for injuries to a minor child some seven years of age suffered from having his foot caught in an open elevator on which the child was playing. Liability is sought to be established on the “turntable doctrine.”

The difficulty in declaring liability in the “turntable cases” has been to reconcile such liability with the rule that the liability to a trespasser is to not injure intentionally. This reconciliation has in different jurisdictions been made on various grounds. Probably all of them come under the statement made in some of'the…