Wechsler v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.

Citations

• 247 Pa. 96
• 93 A. 19
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 787

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railway companies — Car turning corner — ■ Injury to pedestrians — Infant—Contributory negligence:</p> <p>1. A street railway company may be liable in damages for injuries to a child caused by his being struck by the projecting end of a street car, in turning a corner, where the motorman observed the boy standing at a street crossing, busily engaged in handing something to a person on the front platform, at a point where he should have known that he would be in danger from the overhang of the car.</p> <p>2. In such case, the question of the contibutory negligence of the injured boy, who was eleven years of age, was necessarily for the jury, and it was not error for the court to instruct them that he was only bound to conduct himself as a reasonably careful person would have done under the circumstances.</p>