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· 2/24/1913

Laughlin v. Philadelphia

Citations

  • 239 Pa. 455
  • 86 A. 1022
  • 1913 Pa. LEXIS 587

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities — Evidence — Animals — Yicious horse.</p> <p>A nonsuit was properly granted in an action to recover damages against a city for injury to a child six years of age, caused by the kick of a horse, one of. a team belonging to the city,, where it appeared the team was standing near an iron railing surrounding a bed in which city workmen were planting bulbs, that the child had crawled into a narrow space between the railing and the team, and there was no evidence that the horse which kicked him was vicious or had before been known to kick.</p>

Judges: Fell, Mestrezat, Moschzisker, Potter, Stewart

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