Brandenberg v. Equity Co-Operative Exchange

The appeal is from an order denying defendant’s motion in the alternative for judgment non obstante or a new trial, after verdict for plaintiff.

The action is by the father in behalf of his son, Paul, a minor, to recover for injuries sustained by Paul when a manlift in defendant’s grain elevator at Sanborn, North Dakota, fell with him. The recovery was based on the theory that the lift was an attractive and dangerous plaything for children and also that defendant’s manager, Ferhagen, in charge of the elevator, negligently permitted children to operate the same, knowing it to be dangerous and…