Honaman v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The wife-plaintiff in this case was pushing a baby carriage along the brick sidewalk on the north side of Parkside Avenue, a street bordering Fairmount Park, in the City of Philadelphia, while a group of boys were playing baseball in an adjacent portion of tbe park. As sbe passed about ten feet to tbe rear of tbe borne plate of tbe diamond, a foul tip struck ber in tbe face, as a result of which sbe lost several teeth and eventually tbe sight of one eye.

In their joint suit against tbe city, sbe and ber bus-band charged tbe municipality bad been negligent in that it…