Gilligan v. City of Butte

Hazel Ann Gilligan, an infant five years and nine months old, while playing on a public street at the rear of her home in the city of Butte on Sunday afternoon June 18, 1939, was severely burned and permanently injured when her dress caught fire from the flames of an open torch or flare which it is alleged the defendant city negligently left, suffered and permitted to be and remain burning, unguarded and unattended, during the daylight hours in the afternoon of said day on said street, being in a residential district of the city and known by the defendant to be much used and frequented by…