Farrand v. Houston T. C. R. Co.

This admittedly correct statement of the nature and result of the suit, very slightly changed, is taken from plaintiff in error’s brief:

“Wallace Farrand, a minor, by his father, W. W. Farrand, as his next friend, sued the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him, including the loss of his eye, when he lacked one and a half months of being 13 years of age, from the explosion of a dynamite cap that the defendant, it was alleged, had negligently left exposed in an unlocked locker on its premises, which had been made unusually attractive…