Kroesen v. New Castle Electric Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 198 Pa. 30
• 47 A. 851
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 728

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—Infant of tender years—Parents— Contributory negligence— Province of court and jury. <?</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries to a child four years old, the question of the parent’s contributory negligence is for the jury, where the evidence shows that before the child went upon the cartway of the street, where it was injured by a car, it was seated in a chair on the sidewalk, that its mother was at an open window about twenty-five feet away, and that the child’s nurse was standing on the pavement not far from the child.</p>