Davis v. City of Wenatchee
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chelan county, Grimshaw, J., entered December 1, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a minor through the explosion of a dynamite cap.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, a minor eleven years of age, through the explosion of a dynamite cap.. In the spring of 1913, street contractors, Berry & Monary, entered into correspondence with Charles T. White, water commissioner of the city of Wenatchee. The correspondence embodied an offer on the part-of the contractors to dig trenches in the streets of the city for water mains, and an acceptance of the offer by White, as water commissioner. The understanding between the contractors and the city never assumed a more definite form than in…
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