Carroll v. Spencer

The infant appellant, an eight year old boy, on his way home from school with three schoolmates, strayed into a partially finished house which was being built for sale by the individual appellee and the corporate appellee, and after playing about the house for a few minutes, fell through a hole in the floor and was seriously injured. In the suits for damages by the infant and his father, which followed, and which were tried together, the court directed a verdict for the defendants at the close of the plaintiffs’ case. This appeal from the judgments entered for the appellees challenges the…