Perrin v. Rainwater

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

The story of a pitiful tragedy by which a child lost its life, which is the genesis of this action, is one which so touches the sympathy as to render it difficult to consider and determine the issues of law and fact calmly and dispassionately.

The daughter of the respondent, Rebecca Wardlaw Perrin, was an infant of about the age of seven years; she was a pupil of a dance school kept by Dicksie Barfield, in a hall situate on the third floor of a building in the City of Florence, which building was owned by the appellant herein.…