Burnett and Wife v. Ft. Worth L. P. Co.

This is a certified question for our decision by the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second Supreme Judicial District. The certificate is as follows:

“On January 15, 1908, the judgment in this case was reversed and the cause remanded in an opinion that day filed by us, a copy of which accompanies this certificate, wherein the case was thus briefly stated:

“ ‘A negro boy about twelve years old went with a companion near the same age to the roof of the Dundee Building in Fort Worth, Texas, passing up a stairway and out through a trapdoor, and was there instantly killed by coming in contact with a…