Zerngis v. H. P. Hood & Sons

The plaintiff, a child fourteen years of age, was injured on July 10, 1923, by a piece of ice thrown by one Gillespie, an employee of the defendant. A car, loaded with ice or ice and milk, belonging to the defendant, was standing near its place of business about fifty feet from Massachusetts Avenue, in Cambridge. It was the practice of the defendant to have a carload of ice at this place on summer nights and every night children were near the car picking up ice. On the night in question about thirty-six children were there and "... this crowd of children . . . interfering with the employee of…