Eaton v. Moore
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the defendants. Plaintiif assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This writ of error is to a judgment for defendants on demurrer to the amended declaration. The declaration alleges in substance that the defendants, J. S. Moore and W. C. Switzer, were the owners of certain dynamite caps, easily exploded and very dangerous, which they had stored in an open out-house located in the yard surrounding and close to the tenant’s house of the defendant Moore, which was occupied by the plaintiff and his father, who was tenant and employee of Moore; that the defendants knew of the dangerous character of the caps in question, and it was their duty to store them in a…
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