Southwest Cotton Co. v. Clements

The plaintiff, Fred Clements, by John H. Foster, his guardian ad litem, brought this suit against the Southwest Cotton Company for damages for personal injuries. The act of negligence charged is that the defendant carelessly left exposed upon its premises a dynamite cap which plaintiff later found, and which, while being handled by him, exploded, blowing off the thumb and two fingers of his left hand and- injuring the sight of his left eye. The accident happened on November 17, 1920, about one month before plaintiff’s twelfth birthday. The defendant interposed to the complaint a general…