Bloom v. Whelan

Citations

• 56 Pa. Super. 277
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Speed,—Infant.</p> <p>In an action against the owner and driver of an automobile, for injuries to a boy five years old the case is for the jury, where the evidense tends to show that at the time of the accident the defendant was coasting his car on a grade down a street paved with fire brick and not traversed by a street car line, that he was going at a rate estimated by plaintiff’s witnesses at twenty-five miles an hour, and by the defendant at twelve miles an hour; that about the middle of the block a number of children were collected on the sidewalk visible to the plaintiff; that the boy was struck about four or five feet from the curb as he started to walk across the street oblivious to the approach of the car; and that plaintiff gave no signal as he approached the group of children.</p>