Maumee Valley Railways & Light Co. v. Hanaway

The plaintiff, in the common pleas court, recovered a verdict and judgment against the defendant in the sum of $10,000, because of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Kenneth Hanaway, who sued by his next friend, was at the time of the accident a minor slightly under three years of age.

On or about the 16th day of June, 1914, he, with some other children, was playing near the corner of Utah and Fassett streets in the city of Toledo. The defendant was operating an electric car upon the tracks of The Toledo Railways & Light Company on Fassett street. At the time in…