Wood v. Saunders

The jury was warranted in finding the following happening: On July 12, 1926, one Hammer, accompanied by the infant plaintiff, drove his Dodge truck up to a gasoline pump in the defendant’s gasoline filling station in Hempstead, for the purpose of having the gasoline tank of the car filled. Hammer stepped down from the truck and removed the cushion from the driver’s seat, under which the gasoline tank was located. At this juncture, the infant plaintiff stood up on the front part of the truck, partly facing the rear of the truck, with the tank to his left. Defendant’s employee Thorne came to…