Minotti v. State

Judgment reversed on the law and facts and a new trial granted. Memorandum: Claimants’ intestate was a student at a State School for the Blind. At the date of the accident he was 15 years old. He had defective vision but could watch television, attend the movies and ball games. On the evening of March 28, 1956 he was seen clothed in a bathrobe proceeding towards a bathroom in the dormitory. There was evidence that he had been trained how to prepare the water for a tub bath by first turning on the cold water and then adding hot water. A few minutes after the boy had been thus seen, the house…