Cote v. Company

1. The motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict were properly denied. Upon the evidence submitted to the jury the following facts were findable. December 10, 1930, the plaintiff Francis, then a boy twelve years old, purchased at the defendant's store in Manchester a box of twenty-two caliber "short" cartridges. Later in the same day he loaded a revolver belonging to a playmate with one of these cartridges, and shoved the loaded gun inside his belt. Thereafter when he attempted to pull it out the cartridge exploded inflicting the injuries complained of. The shooting took place in a vacant…