Stilwell Ex Rel. Stilwell v. Nation

The plaintiff, a nine-year-old minor, has sued by her mother as next friend to recover for personal injuries sustained when she rode her bicycle into a single strand barbed wire fence on defendant’s property. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, counsel for defendant moved for a directed verdict. The motion was granted and the trial judge directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. The only question to be resolved on appeal is whether this was reversible error.

The defendant is the owner of a trailer court called Tepe Trailer Village located about two miles south of…