Highsaw v. Creech

Robert Highsaw, a minor, sued the defendants below, by his next friend, J. L. Highsaw, for damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by having his eye put out by a shot from an air rifle in the hands of the nine year old son of the defendants below.

The parties will be referred to as in the court below, Robert B. Highsaw by next friend, plaintiff, and Thomas W. Creech and wife, Ethel A. Creech, defendants. The declaration averred in substance that the defendants gave to their son, Eddie Creech, aged nine years, an air rifle, and that said air rifle was a dangerous instrumentality, and…