Woeckner v. Erie Electric Motor Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 25, July T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1898, No. 92, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Morrison, J., of tire 48th judicial district, specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 25, July T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1898, No. 92, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Morrison, J., of tire 48th judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that on July 25, 1890, tbe plaintiff a girl three years and ten months old was run over by one of the defendant’s electric cars at Twelfth and State streets in the city of Erie, and sustained such injuries that both of her legs had to be amputated. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The plaintiff was three years and ten months of age at the time of her injury. Accompanied by her brother, who was ten years old, she attempted to cross a street on which the cars of the-defendant were running. The street was one hundred feet wide, with a roadway sixty-four feet in width. The car tracks were twenty-five feet from the curb, and the street was at the time clear of obstructions. The plaintiff crossed the street diagonally from the curb to the tracks, in the direction in which the car was running. She was seen by the motorman when she started to cross,…
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