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· 4/27/1908

Landy v. Hamilton

Citations

  • 221 Pa. 50
  • 69 A. 1121
  • 1908 Pa. LEXIS 431

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Child—Wagon—Nonsuit.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries to a child eight and one-half years old, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the child started to cross a street not at a public crossing, and met a wagon, which drew up to let her pass, and immediately beyond she was struck by defendant’s wagon going in the same direction, and there is no evidence of defendant’s negligence, except the child’s expression that the horse flew past “.like a bird.”</p>

Judges: Brown, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter, Stewart

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