St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute R. R. v. Bell

Robert Bell, a lad some nine years old, in company with other lads, wandered on a pleasant Sunday into the suburbs of the village of Highland, and there found other and larger boys, and embarked in the sport of turning and riding round upon a turn-table of the appellant, and, while so engaged, Robert Bell was seriously hurt.

This was an action brought to recover damages for that injury, upon the ground of negligence, or want of proper care on the part of the railroad company.

The structure was a skeleton turn-tahle, not covered with plank, and not protected by a wall except where the rails of…