Messner v. Komo Chemical Co.

Kun, J.,

This is an action to recover damages, by a minor plaintiff and his parents against the defendant corporation, for physical injuries sustained by the minor as the result of the shooting of the minor by a watchman of the defendant. Proofs at the trial disclosed the following facts:

*390On July 7, 1931, the minor plaintiff, a boy of about 13 years of age, and several other boys were playing at the corner of Greenville Street and Weccacoe Avenue, streets in southeast Philadelphia. It was about 10 o’clock at night. The boys were throwing stones at a tin can on the top of a fireplug. The…