GUTIERREZ v. SUTTON VENDING SERVICE, INC.

No. 4780.

397 P.2d 3 (1964)

Adolph GUTIERREZ, individually, and Adolph Gutierrez, as Guardian ad Litem for Jacob Gutierrez, a minor child, Appellant, v. SUTTON VENDING SERVICE, INC., Lamon Collins, dba Lamon Collins Union 76 Service Station and Lamon Collins, individually, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry E. Claiborne, and John Manzonie, of Las Vegas, for Appellant.

Singleton and DeLanoy and Rex A. Jemison, Morse & Graves, and Lee R. Rose, Las Vegas, for respondents.


THOMPSON, Justice.

On October 12, 1961, eight year old Jacob Gutierrez went to a service station to get a candy bar from an automatic vending machine. He put his nickel in the slot, pulled the knob, and the machine toppled over upon him. He was immediately taken to the hospital where a two and a half inch laceration above his right eyebrow was sutured and a contusion to his right knee treated. X-rays of his skull and knee were...

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