Lewis v. National Cash Register Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The plaintiff, an infant of tender years, re-' covered a verdict for $2,500 as damages against the appellant, the defendant below, for injuries sustained by her as a result *599of being run into by an automobile propelled and operated by one Pearl Kaler, along a public street of Jersey City, while engaged in his master’s business.

The appellant obtained a rule to show cause in the court below why a new trial should not be granted upon the ground that the damages awarded were excessive and reserved to itself two exceptions, embodied in the rule,…