Starling v. Selma Cotton Mills

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit. The plaintiff’s intestate, a bright little boy 5 years of age, was drowned in a reservoir on defendant’s premises, Saturday afternoon, 20 February, 1909. The reservoir was about 50 feet around, with a brick wall around it. It was 2 or 3 inches from the top of the brick wall to the water on the inside. Rev. Mr. Morris testified that there had been a fence around the reservoir and that there was still “a piece of one there at the time of the drowning, of the little boy,-Alma Starling.” He testified that the fence was put up with post-oak posts,…