Gripe v. Grieves

This is an appeal from an order which sustained a motion for new trial. The action, one for damages alleged to have resulted from a personal injury sustained in 1919 while the plaintiff in error was experimenting with a dynamite cap when he was approximately eight years of age, was instituted in 1932, against the defendant in error and others not here involved. The action sought to enforce liability on the theory that the defendants were joint adventurers in the construction of an oil field road or joint tort-feasors in the negligent exposure of certain explosives. The plaintiff in error…