Lance v. Senior

The plaintiff, Randy Lance, by his father and next friend, brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries. The amended complaint alleged that at the time of his injury, the plaintiff was a nine-year-old boy who suffered from hemophilia, which the defendants knew; that he was an overnight guest in the defendants’ home and that on the morning of August 15, 1964, the defendants “negligently and carelessly permitted and allowed” the plaintiff to play with a needle “which was caused to and did get into the throat of the plaintiff and was thereafter sucked into the inner part of the…