Williams v. Cohn

Plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Francis Nicholson, recovered damages in the sum of ‡1,500 for the death of his intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of an employee of defendant’s in the operation of a delivery truck. Two specifications of negligence, which in legal effect constitute but one ground, were submitted to the jury, to wit: That the said employee, while acting within the scope of his employment with defendant in the operation of said truck, (1) failed to exercise reasonable and ordinary care to look and ascertain whether the decedent was in close…