Harry Novicki, a Minor, by Harlan Novicki, His Guardian, and Harlan Novicki and Mary Novicki v. Blaw-Knox Company, a Corporation

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether the evidence warranted a verdict for the plaintiffs in an action against a landowner for negligent injury of an infant trespasser.

In several respects this case is an almost classic example of injury to a child caused by an attractive nuisance. Appel-lee, Blaw-Knox Co., is a manufacturer whose premises included a large open area near a housing project. In that area appellee was accustomed to assemble and leave bulky machines and materials for which it had no future use pending disposition of the accumulation as scrap or junk. The…