John Aragona Enterprises, Inc. v. Miller

On October 17, 1969, Cynthia Anne Halme, 20 months of age, slipped out of the apartment where she lived with her parents while her mother was talking to a neighbor at the apartment door. Ten to twenty minutes after she was last seen by her mother in the apartment, looking at television with several other small children, she was found by neighbors in a drainage canal 60 to 70 feet upstream from *299her apartment, apparently dead. She was revived and taken to the hospital. However, she died from pneumonia three days later as a result of her immersion in the canal.

Cynthia’s administrator, her father…