Keough v. Markus Et Ux.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

Ethel Keough, a girl seventeen years of age, was employed by the defendants to do general housework in their home.. She started to work on Monday, December 8, 1930. On Wednesday, December 10, 1930, about 9 :30 A. M., she struck a match to light the gas kitchen range, an explosion followed, and she was seriously burned. This suit was brought charging the defendants, with negligence, which caused her injuries. The jury found a verdict in her favor in the sum of $1,988.

The appellants’ two assignments of error are directed to the court’s refusing to give binding…