206 Ky. 95 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1924
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
This is an action to recover for the death of Ralph Alvis, who was between three and four years old, by his administrator against Jerome J. Weaver, the owner of the property on which the little boy was killed on September 6, 1921. At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the court instructed the jury peremptorily to find for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
“And likewise where, though children might have been expected to come upon the property, no injuries to them should reasonably have been contemplated under the circumstances, there is no negligence, and consequently no liability.”
The case seems thus to fall within this principle. Harry Alvis, the day before, had gone over to this knoll and brought the children home to supper. They had been playing there all the summer with his knowledge and it had never occurred to him that there was any danger in their playing there.. All the children in the neighborhood played there. The parents of a number
Judgment affirmed.