Barker v. Kallash

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1984-07-05

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OPINION OF THE COURT Wachtler, J. The question on this appeal is whether the 15-year-old plaintiff, who was injured while constructing a “pipe bomb”, can maintain a tort action against the 9-year-old defendant who allegedly sold the firecrackers from which the plaintiff’s companions extracted the gunpowder used to construct the bomb. The trial court granted summary judgment dismissing the cause of action agains…

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