Meyer v. General Electric Co.

We must decide whether a commercially operated ditch fifteen feet in average width with domestic water running in it from two to three-and-one-half feet deep, is an attractive nuisance along the unfenced portion of its course through the city of Richland.

At about noon, on August 28, 1953, plaintiff’s two-year- and-eight-months old son left his home. He was unattended and on a tricycle. He traveled over two thousand feet to Thayer drive, a hard-surfaced thoroughfare parallel to and about two hundred feet distant from the ditch in question, which was unfenced and easily accessible to him.…