Hernandez v. Murphy

Defendants appeal from a judgment for $5,000 in favor of plaintiff, rendered in an action brought by plaintiff for the death of his fifteen-year-old son, Jackie Hernandez, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendants. Defendants urge that the evidence is insufficient, as a matter of law, to show that they were negligent; that the evidence .shows, as a matter of law, that Jackie was guilty of contributory negligence, and that the trial court erred in the giving of certain instructions.

So far as the questions of defendants’ negligence and Jackie’s contributory negligence are…