Preston v. Duncan

Supreme Court of Washington · Decided 1960-02-25

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Hill, J. This is an appeal, by a plaintiff, from a summary judgment dismissing two causes of action: 1. An action against a six-year-old minor because the child “intentionally and with full knowledge of the probable effects thereof did jump” from a chair onto the plaintiff (a seventy-eight-year-old woman), “knocking plaintiff to the floor”; in consequence of…

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