Burns v. Brooklyn Union Gas Co.

Action by the infant plaintiff to recover of the defendant municipality damages for personal injuries sustained while the infant was playing on the seat of an abandoned automobile which had stood for several months upon an unimproved public highway, and by the infanks father for medical expenses and loss of services. A playmate handed the infant plaintiff a lighted paper which burned his fingers. The infant dropped the burning paper, which ignited gasoline in the tank of the car, causing *349the tank to explode, with resultant injury to the infant plaintiff. Upon the trial the father’s action was…