Hannigan v. Wright
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case to recover for personal injuries to plaintiff by being knocked down and run over by an automobile, alleged to have been owned by and operated under the control and direction of the defendant, at Ninth and Market Streets in the city of Wilmington, about five o’clock in the afternoon of March 29, 1905. (See further facts in charge to jury.) At the trial, the plaintiff was asked by her counsel what was the condition of her memory and her nerves as a result of…
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Action on the Case to recover for personal injuries to plaintiff by being knocked down and run over by an automobile, alleged to have been owned by and operated under the control and direction of the defendant, at Ninth and Market Streets in the city of Wilmington, about five o’clock in the afternoon of March 29, 1905. (See further facts in charge to jury.) At the trial, the plaintiff was asked by her counsel what was the condition of her memory and her nerves as a result of the accident. Whiteman, for defendant, objected, on the ground that the narr failed to allege any injuries as to…
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, J.:
—We think the allegation in the narr is sufficiently broad to cover this question, and that the question is admissible.
Pennewill, J.
(charging the jury):
Gentlemen of the jury:—In this action Elizabeth Hannigan, the plaintiff, seeks to recover from Hughes B. Wright, the defendant, damages for personal injuries which she alleges were caused by the defendant’s negligence.
The plaintiff claims that on March 29th last, about five o’clock in the afternoon, while she was in the act of crossing Market Street in this city at or near the southerly line of Ninth Street, and when she had…
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