Legal Opinion

Linthicum v. Truitt

Superior Court of Delaware

Decided April 19, 1911No. 18PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Action on the Case by an infant through next friend, to recover damages for personal injuríes received while attempting to get on a merry-go-round while in motion.

1Opinion of the CourtBoyce, J.

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury:— This is an action brought by John C. Linthicum of H. by Herbert R. Linthicum, his parent and next friend, against Willard S. Truitt, to recover damages for personal injuries to the said John C. Linthicum of H., alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant.

The declaration filed in this case contains five counts. It *343is averred in each of them, that the defendant was, at the time of the happening of the accident complained of, on the first day of August, A. D. 1906, in the possession of and engaged in the operation of a certain…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Tully v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore RailroadSuperior Court of Delaware · 1901
  2. Weldon v. Philadephia, Wilmington & Baltimore RailroadSuperior Court of Delaware · 1899
  3. Goldstein v. Peoples Railway Co.Superior Court of Delaware · 1905

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Brown v. Columbia Amusement Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1931
  2. Dockery Ex Rel. Pullen v. World of Mirth Shows, Inc.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1965
  3. Pokoyski v. McDermottSupreme Court of Delaware · 1961
  4. Tennessee State Fair Ass'n v. HartmanTennessee Supreme Court · 1915
  5. Trowell v. Diamond Supply Co.Superior Court of Delaware · 1951

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