Windle v. Davis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 110 and 111, Jan. T., 1922, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1918, No. 3198, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Robert Windle, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Jennie Joyce, and Jennie Joyce, in her own right, v. James C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, operating the Phila. & Reading Railway. Trespass for personal injuries to minor. Before Barratt, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
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Appeals, Nos. 110 and 111, Jan. T., 1922, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1918, No. 3198, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Robert Windle, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Jennie Joyce, and Jennie Joyce, in her own right, v. James C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, operating the Phila. & Reading Railway. Trespass for personal injuries to minor. Before Barratt, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict and judgment for Robert Windle for $11,500 and for Jennie Joyce $3,500. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were, inter…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Walling,
This suit by mother and son is for personal injuries to the latter, whom we shall call “the plaintiff.” In the summer and fall of 1918, Robert Windle, the plaintiff, then in his seventeenth year, was employed at Hog Island, and, residing in the northern section of Philadelphia, on October 23d, of that year, boarded the defendant’s morning train at Girard Avenue and Thirty-first Street1 for B Street Station, Hog Island, as was his custom. At the latter point were two passenger tracks, extending in an *26easterly and westerly direction and between them was a cinder…
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