Porter v. Cook

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Fisi-iburne.

Plaintiff’s decedent, James Calvin Porter, a boy of about eleven years of age, fell from his bicycle beneath a passenger bus owned and driven by the defendant, J. J. Cook, and was instantly killed. The action was brought against Cook to recover damages for wrongful death, and against Pennsylvania Casualty Company of Eancaster, Pennsylvania, with whom he carried liability insurance. To the various specifications of negligence charged against him in the complaint, Cook filed a general denial and a plea of contributory…