Marcoux v. Collins

A verdict for the plaintiff was warranted by the evidence. Mr. Collins had stopped with the rear end of the truck, which headed west, opposite an alley between 132 and 126 Auburn Street. The entire job of delivering the 50 gallons of oil, winding in the hose and collecting the money at the house took the driver from four to five minutes. Gerard, his brother Robert, four years of age, and another boy, almost four, were playing in the alley and on the sidewalk. They followed the driver into the alley when he connected the hose with the intake and the latter noticed them.

Emile Marcoux, a brother…