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· 5/10/1909

Fink v. Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Co.

Citations

  • 224 Pa. 618
  • 73 A. 936
  • 1909 Pa. LEXIS 853

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Infant—Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover for the death of a child three years old run down by a street car, a nonsuit is properly entered where it appears that the car stopped within its length after the child had been struck, and before the rear wheels had reached him, and neither of the two witnesses who saw the child immediately before the accident testified to any circumstances from which negligence could be inferred in the operation of the car.</p>

Judges: Brown, Elkin, Fell, Mitchell, Potter

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