Pettit v. Lifson

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Two actions arising out of an accident which happened on July 6, 1949, at 1:30 p. m. when a delivery truck owned by defendant Russell H. Lifson and driven by his employe, defendant Sam Schenfeld, ran down Allen Barstad, a minor then nine years of age. The accident occurred in an alley that runs in a north and south direction from Sims street on the north to York avenue on the south, midway between Payne avenue on the east and Edgerton street on the west in the city of St. Paul.

Mabel Pettit, as mother and natural guardian of Allen Barstad, brings one action on his…