Miller v. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hetfield, J.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment based upon a general verdict against it in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff, and for consequential damages to his mother, as the result of the infant coming in contact with an electrified third rail maintained and controlled by the defendant. The plaintiff, an eight-year-old hoy at the time of the accident, September 6th, 1933, while crossing the defendant’s tracks at a point where they intersect the Turnpike road of Pleasantville and…