Supreme Court of New Jersey February 15, 1871 (Vanderbeck v. Hendry)

Bedle, J.

Hendry, the plaintiff below, is a minor, and, at the time of the injury complained of, was about ten years of ago. The defendants were lumber merchants in Jersey City, and had a lumber yard on Wayne street, built on piles, and through it from that street were three passages or gangways, sixteen feet wide, running northwardly a distance of about eighty feet, to another gangway of about