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E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY v. EDGERTON

No. 15359.

231 F.2d 430 (1956)

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. Ward EDGERTON, a Minor, by His Father and Natural Guardian, George Edgerton, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 13, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin D. Gray, Minneapolis, Minn. (Robert F. Henson and Cant, Taylor, Haverstock, Beardsley & Gray, Minneapolis, Minn., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

Richard J. Leonard, St. Paul, Minn. (Pierce Butler, III, and Doherty, Rumble & Butler, St. Paul, Minn., were with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and WOODROUGH and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.

GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for appellee, a minor, in an action brought by him to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from the explosion by him of a dynamite cap which had been found by his companion on premises owned by appellant E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. We shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court.

It was alleged in the complaint that on April 8, 1952, and for a substantial time prior...

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