Reichle v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 241 Pa. 1
• 88 A. 79
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 726

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street car companies — Motorman—Duty to looh — - Injury to child.</p> <p>A case against a street railway company to recover damages for injuries sustained by a child six years of age, is necessarily for the jury where the evidence produced on behalf of the plaintiff tended to show that the child started to run across the street in front of the car, and fell upon the track about twenty-five feet distant therefrom; that the motorman did not see the child until it was struck by the fender; that if he had been looking ahead he would have seen it f that the car stopped within six feet, after the child was struck, and the motorman could have stopped it had he seen the child when it fell. The fact that the accident occurred near an intersecting street, and that the motorman, in the exercise of his duty, was obliged to look up and down such street as he approached the crossing, is not material, where the car had already made the crossing, before the, child fell upon the track.</p>