Legal Opinion
Ernest B. Collins, Individually and as Next Friend of Vicki Lynn Collins, a Minor v. Arkansas Cement Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 3, 1972No. 71-1050PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The minor plaintiff Vicki Collins, age six, was injured when playing with a cherry bomb which had been given to her by a 15-year old girl, who had received it from an employee of the defendant. A jury verdict in the amount of $33,000 was entered in the District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. The defendant timely appealed, questioning the sufficiency of the evidence and proximate causation, claiming that the cherry bombs were stolen from its possession by an employee; that the employee was not acting within the scope and course of his employment at the time…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Ozan Lumber Company v. McNeelySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
- Chaney v. DuncanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1937
- Hartsock v. Forsgren, Inc.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1963
- Bull v. ManningSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1968
- Ark. La. Lumber Co. v. CauseySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1958
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- K-Mart Enterprises of Fla., Inc. v. KellerDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983
- Brown v. Vanity Fair Mills, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1973
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