Dollman v. Haefner

The original action was brought by Haefner, a minor, by his next friend, to recover damages for personal injury received by him, as was claimed, from the negligent and careless throwing of pieces of slate by the defendant or his servants from the top of a house which they were unroofing, one of the pieces of slate having struck the child, who was on the ground quite a distance away. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,500, and a motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment entered upon the verdict, and a bill of exceptions taken, purporting to contain all of the evidence…