Brown v. Scranton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
These appeals raise the same question decided in Paraska v. Scranton [the preceding case]. In this case, however, onr examination of the record discloses no evidence of negligence on the part of defendant to submit to the jury. Here the accident occurred when an eleven-year-old girl fell and received injury in a public playground while in the act of climbing over a wire fence, separating two parts of the playground, to reach a drinking fountain. Safe access to the fountain was provided by another route slightly longer but well known to the children and within a short distance of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Guilmartin v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Ansell v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
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