Vanmeter v. Goldfarb

The accident out of which this action arose occurred on September 4, 1920, in an alley in the city of Chicago. Three boys, Clarence Barker, the deceased, Harold Barker, his brother, and Floyd Tripp, — eleven, nine and ten years old, respectively, — without permission of the owner were taking some grapes in the back yard of some people they did not know. They were frightened by the slamming of a door and ran into the alley. There was a fence higher than the boys’ heads along the alley, so that they could not be seen by Simon Goldfarb, appellee, who was driving through the alley, until they…