Blanchette v. Miles

On exceptions to acceptance of referees’ report. This action is brought under Sections 9 and 10 of Chap. 101, R. S. 1930, as amended, known as the Death-Liability or Lord Campbell’s Act.

Justifiably findable facts by the referees were: On the evening of September 29,1939, Pauline Blanchette, aged 12, was run over and killed by the defendant’s automobile, he then operating the same. She had just alighted from a passenger bus which had stopped opposite the entrance to the Webber Hospital in the city of Biddeford and passed hurriedly in front of the bus to go across the street into the hospital;…