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· 10/30/1905

Sontgen v. Kittanning & Ford City Street Railway

Citations

  • 213 Pa. 114
  • 62 A. 523
  • 1905 Pa. LEXIS 385

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Infants—Nonsuit.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of a child five years old, run over by a car, a nonsuit is properly entered, where the only witness who saw the accident testified that the child was playing behind a pile of earth about five or six feet from the track and suddenly ran out on the track when the car was not more than four feet away.</p>

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

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