Carrillo v. Kreckel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Moule, J. P.
The question presented on this appeal is whether a 14-year-old boy, participating in a street game or frolic with another boy of the same age, can be held liable to a bystander injured by the other boy’s errant toss of a horseshoe.
On May 7, 1969, infant defendant John O. Kreckel showed a specially-manufactured pitching horseshoe, which he had found, to infant defendant Craig Wollesen and demonstrated to him that it would create sparks when slid or tossed in the street. The two boys then stood approximately 40 to 50 feet apart in the middle of Landvale Park, a public street in the…
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