Laichak v. Bacon ex rel. Bacon

HENDRY, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal, brought by the defendant, from an adverse summary judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs on the issue of liability.

The plaintiffs’ complaint was for damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by the minor plaintiff, a thirteen year old girl, while she was being allowed by the defendant to operate defendant’s power lawn mower.

The defendant’s answer denied the material allegations of the complaint and by way of affirmative defense charged that the minor plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence.

Interrogatories were propounded and…