Steeves v. City of Rochester

These are appeals from nonunani.mous judgments of affirmance by the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, of judgments of the Supreme Court, Monroe County, dismissing the complaints at the close of the plaintiffs’ case on the grounds that plaintiffs had failed to prove defendant’s negligence and plaintiffs’ freedom from contributory negligence.

The infant plaintiff (hereinafter called plaintiff), was injured when a pot torch (also called a flare or a bomb) exploded. He was then eleven years and four months old. He and another boy observed the pot torch at the corner of two streets in the City…