Koenig v. Flaherty

Opinion by

Mr, Justice Allen M. Stearns,

The appeals are from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in a trespass action refusing plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial following a verdict by a jury for defendant.

The action was instituted by Helen Mae Koenig, a minor by her mother as guardian, and by the mother in her own right, appellants, against Patrick F. Flaherty, appellee, for damages sustained by the minor when she was struck by appellee’s automobile.

At 9:20 p.m., on July 16, 1958, appellee was operating his automobile in a northerly direction on Brighton Road, in the…