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Show ROY TRESPASSES BUT IS GIVEN DAMAGES In the district court of Rich field Saturday an award was given in favor fa-vor of a 15-year-old boy. named Payne, allowing him $ 15.000, for injuries in-juries received while playing on a beet dump belonging to the Utah Idaho Sugar company. The case is a novel one in I'tah in that the boy was not an employe of the sugar company, but was a trespasser. He sought to recover by his guardian from the sugar company com-pany on the plea that the sugar company had constructed such an attractive at-tractive place to play, that it lured children. The boy. while playing on the dump caught, hold of a wire rope which cam" in contact with an elec tric wirf. resulting in serious injury j to the lad. The verdict is the larrrst award ever mad" in Sevier county in a personal damage suit. |