Slater v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Lovins, Judge:

This case comes' here on a writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County rendered in an action of trespass on the case to recover damages for personal injuries wherein Everett Slater is plaintiff and United Fuel Gas Company is defendant. A jury returned a.verdict in favor of the plaintiff for two thousand five hundred dollars and the court, after overruling a motion to set aside the verdict and grant defendant a new trial, entered judgment for the amount of the verdict.

Plaintiff, a boy fourteen years of age, suffered severe burns on June 11,…