Is it negligence to allow an 11-year-old boy to use a gun?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Paterson v. Hardy, 1967 CanLII 353 (SK QB):
In Black v. Hunter 1925 CanLII 125 (SK CA), [1925] 3 WWR 393, at 396, 20 Sask LR 123, Martin, J.A. (as he then was) stated that he failed to see how it was not negligence to allow an 11-year-old boy to use a gun. That case, however, is clearly distinguishable from the instant case, for there., a gun dangerous per se was involved; moreover, there was no evidence in that case that the boy had received any training from the father in the use of the gun.
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