Ramsay v. Brown

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Defendant in this Vermont negligence action appeals from a jury verdict of $27,500 in favor of plaintiff’s ward for personal injuries sustained on defendant’s property. He raises several objections to the trial court’s charge, none of which we find sufficiently compelling to require reversal.

Raymond Paul Blow, ward of his aunt, Dorothy Limoges Ramsay,1 was ten years old at the time of the accident on October 16, 1965. On that day he and two friends were “playing war” on a parcel of land in Essex Junction, Vermont, that C. E. Brown, the defendant, used for the purpose of…