Fuller v. Hessler

Defendant operated a store out Michigan avenue in the city of Detroit. .December 9, 1920, about 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon, one of his clerks took some waste paper to-a nearby vacant lot, set fire to it, watched it burn down and went back to the store. About half an hour later some boys came along and, it is claimed, found some embers,- gathered up other waste paper lying on the lot and placed the same on the embers causing the added material to flame up. Stephania Kubin, a girl nearly five years of age, came up to such new fire and, while warming her hands, the wind blew a burning paper…