Dockery v. City of Norton

Phyllis Dockery, an infant twelve years of age, suing by her father and next friend, filed a motion for judgment against the City of Norton to recover damages for injuries received by her while playing or climbing on a large drainage pipe which the city had stored, in anticipation of its installation, on a grass plot between the sidewalk and curb on one of its streets. The motion alleged that as the plaintiff climbed on the pipe it rolled and crushed her leg between that and another pipe. It was further alleged that the accident and the plaintiff’s injuries were proximately caused by the…