Beldon v. Hooper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages arising from the alleged negligence of the defendant, a druggist, in delivering to plaintiff, a boy nearly 15 years old, two bottles of carbon disulphide, ordered by the boy’s father for the destruction of weevil in wheat. *679The boy placed the bottles in the bed of. a Ford car beside him. On driving about town one of the bottles was broken and the contents spilled on his person and on his clothes. The substance caught fire in some undisclosed way, and severely burned the plaintiff.

The petition charged defendant…