Welch v. Jordan

On appeal from judgment entered upon jury considered verdicts for the defendant. These are companion cases involving personal injury to Robert J. Welch, Jr., and the father’s claim for consequential damages.

Plaintiff, Robert J. Welch, Jr., referred to at trial as Robbie, a boy of five years two months of age and the defendant, Michael Jordan, a boy of six years seven months of age on August 10, 1961, the date of the incident, were playing together at the Jordan home in South Portland. In the course of play either a match was “struck” by the defendant or a small fire was built of grass and…