1 Henry Dutton, A Revision of Swift's Digest of the Laws of Connecticut 564 (1871)

A person, before he trusts a gun with an incautious person, is bound to render it perfectly innoxious. Where the defendant negligently and imprudently intrusted a loaded gun to a young mulatto girl, who discharged it against the son of the plaintiff, and severely wounded him, by which the plaintiff lost his service, and was put to great expense for his cure, the defendant was subjected to £100 damages.(2 C.L.R. 393).