Covault v. Nevitt

Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BurNell, Circuit Judge. Action against an infant to recover for negligence of servant. The complaint, among other things, alleges that the defendant, an infant, owned real estate on a public street in the city of Oshkosh upon which there was a store building abutting on the street; that the defendant maintained trap doors in the sidewalk opposite said premises; that defendant had in his employ one Powers, who was janitor of said store building and who used the trap doors as means of ingress and egress from the basement of…