Ritscher v. Orange & Passaic Valley Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The plaintiff, a boy of six years and ten months of age, was run down by defendant’s trolley car in the town of Bloomfield, in the county of Essex, where he was returning to his home from the public school in that neighborhood, which he attended.

The incidents and circumstances in which the boy participated leading up to the accident are variant and give legal color to the status occupied by the boy and by the defendant company respectively, according to the view one may take of the testimony presented in behalf of the respective parties.

Thus,…