Barrett v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc.

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff, about five and one half years of age, was playing in the vicinity of the defendant’s parking lot where a milk truck loaded with one hundred ten cases of milk was backing slowly — about a mile an hour — to park with some of the other trucks of the defendant. According to his own testimony the plaintiff, with three or four companions who were playing in the area in which the truck was proceeding to park, ran to meet the truck, the plaintiff giving directions to the operator as to the manner of backing. He then went to the rear of the truck and attempted to…