Davidson v. Pittsburg, C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 91 Pa. St. 21; 15 W. Va. 628; 15 S. R. 511 (p. 513 bot. and 514); 140 Mass. 337; 115 N. Y. 104; 106 N. C. 301; 28 W. Va, 738; 95 Pa.
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cited 91 Pa. St. 21; 15 W. Va. 628; 15 S. R. 511 (p. 513 bot. and 514); 140 Mass. 337; 115 N. Y. 104; 106 N. C. 301; 28 W. Va, 738; 95 Pa. St. 398; 104 Mass. 52; 12 S. E. R, 555; 83 Va. 554; 15 S. E. R. 81; 18 S. E. R. 782; 68 Iowa, 606; 100 Mass. 214; 71 Ill. 500; 83 Ind. 319; 62 Md. 479; 95 M. S. 702; 14 S. E. R. 234; 36 W. Va, 165; Buswell, Law of Personal Injuries, §§ 96, 143, 149; Booth, Street Railway Law, §§ 390, 391 and note. cited 38 W. Va. 645; 15 W. Va. 628; 9 W. Va. 252; 27 W. Va. 285: 31 W. Va. 483; 29 W. Va. 763; Code, c. 125, s. 6; 32 W. Va. 370; 5 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 352; 30…
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge :
John Davidson, an infant about nine years of age, was permitted by a fireman for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, on the 23d day of August, 1893, to ride upon a hand car transporting some laborers from the town of Wellsburg, Brooke county, to their place of labor out on the company’s line towards the city of Wheeling. An extra morning train ran into the hand car, and the boy was killed. Ilis father, as his administra*409tor, brought suit against the company, in the Circuit Court of Brooke county, and obtained a judgment on the verdict of a jury for…
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