Davis v. Cox

Deen, Judge.

1. The defendants freely admit that they knew the pistol was lying in the top drawer of the chest, knew it was loaded, knew the father was mentally incompetent, and would have removed it from his reach had it occurred to them that he might come upon it and use it. We see no distinction here between this case and the precedents of Glean v. Smith, 116 Ga. App. 111 (156 SE2d 507) and Johnson v. Tucker, 129 Ga. App. 648 (200 SE2d 489). In Glean the father left a pistol in a chest drawer and his infant son shot a playmate with it. In Johnson the driver of an automobile permitted…