Court Opinion

ID: 6734096
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:16:42.614281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:42.413366
License: Public Domain

Harold. Lehman, by his next friend Blanche Pifer, filed his original action in the Allen Common Pleas to recover for injuries sustained by him due to the explosion of dynamite. The facts upon which the action was predicated were that Lehman, a boy of thirteen, in company with another boy of eleven years, went upon the premises of the National Quarries Co. and there found a stick of dynamite lying upon some steps leading down into the quarry. The boys took said dynamite into a woods nearby where they exploded it.
The Quarry Co. had no magazines of either the first or second class in which to store their dynamite and as there was no definite place to keep same it was stored at various places over the quarry. The trial court at the close of Lehman’s testimony directed a verdict in favor of the Company and on review the Allen Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court.
Lehman contends in the Supreme Court:
1. That 5903-26 GC. provides that dynamite shall be kept in separate magazines, etc., and that explosion caps shall not be stored in the same place; and that the'company at the time of the injury had complied with none of said provisions.
2. The Supreme Court has held that one is not permitted to expose a torpedo or dangerous instrument so that a boy may pick it up, and if personal injury results, the company will be liable. 45 OS. 11.
3. That there is a distinction between cases where injury is caused by a dangerous statical condition and premises where dangerous active operations are being carried on; that in the latter case a much higher degree of care is necessary in protecting children.
4. That the court erred in ordering Lehman to strike from his petition the words “Carelessly, negligently, recklessly, wanton, wilful and unlawful” when the action was brought upon the facts in the case.