Hercules Powder Co. v. Wolf

The Hercules Powder Company was engaged in blasting stumps from a considerable area of cutover land, in Forrest county, with the consent of the owner of the land. It used for this purpose dynamite cartridges that were fired by means of a dynamite cap. Joseph Wolf, a small boy, went on a portion of this land in search of a cow belonging to his father, found a box of these dynamite caps, which the jury were warranted by the evidence in believing had been-left there by the powder company’s servants, and, while playing with one of the caps, it exploded and injured his hand. He sued the powder…