Driscoll v. C. Rasmussen Corp.

Neil Driscoll, a seven-year-old boy, herein referred to as plaintiff, was burned while playing on a trash pile near a building under construction. In an action by his father and next friend, he recovered a judgment against the contractor, C. Rasmussen Corporation, in the amount of $35,000. Upon defendant’s appeal to the appellate court, the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded because of improper argument to the jury by plaintiffs’ counsel. (Driscoll v. Rasmussen, 57 Ill. App. 2d 349.) We granted plaintiffs’ petition for leave to appeal.

The record shows that in 1955 defendant entered…