Romano v. Short Line Stage Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered by the trial court, upon sustaining a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence at the conclusion of plaintiffs ’ testimony, in an action brought by the parents for the wrongful death of their son.

On December 21, 1922, at about four o’clock in the afternoon, Joe Romano, a boy between fourteen and fifteen years of age, a student at the Edmonds high school, was struck by the auto stage of the defendant company just as he emerged from the rear of a school bus standing in a school zone, and from which he and his younger brother had just…