Takashi Kataoka, a child four years old, through his guardian ad litem, his father, seeks to recover damages for injuries suffered by him on September 12, 1938, when his right hand was caught in a small opening at the end of the escalator in the defendant's department store. The complaint described the opening in this manner: "At the point where each `step' of the said escalator merges into the floor of said building there is a narrow metal plate which runs the whole width...
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