Shannon v. Dow

Action of negligence to recover for injuries resulting from the accidental discharge of an improvised cannon. At the *236trial before a jury, the plaintiff recovered a verdict. The case comes forward on the defendant’s general motion.

The defendant, George E-. Dow, is the owner and proprietor of a public garage in East Comith, Maine. In the late evening of July 3, 1932, in preparation for the Fourth of July celebration of the next day, several pounds of black gun powder and a small quantity of yellow powder were brought into the garage and put in cans. Later, a cannon made out of the drive shaft…