Dollar Savings & Trust Co. v. Bell

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 610
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 307

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Parties—Mistahe of - law — Infant—Death.</p> <p>Where an action is brought for the negligent death of a man over twenty-one years of age, who had up to the time of his death lived with his mother, but who at his death had also a minor daughter living, and the mother retains a lawyer and brings suit in her own right, and as grandmother and next friend of her minor daughter, and afterwards the suit is compromised and separate verdicts are taken, one for the grandmother .and the other for the minor, and it appears that there was no fraud committed either by the lawyer or the defendant in the negligence suit, and that no steps were taken to set the verdict aside, the lawyer cannot be compelled to pay to the minor the amount of money which he had collected and held for the grandmother.</p>