Nashville Railway & Light Co. v. Williams Ex Rel. Williams

This is an action brought by Sarah Williams, a minor, by her next friend, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the explosion of a dynamite cap averred to have been negligently left by the side of the Murfreesboro Pike near her home by the defendant Railway & Light Co. The declaration contained only one count, in which it was averred that Sarah was ten years of age and picked up the cap and, being unaware of its dangerous character, touched it with a lighted match, when it exploded and caused the injuries sued for. The defendant pleaded the general issue of not guilty, and the…