Johnson v. Bruner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe District Court of Philadelphia: No. 126, to January Term 1869. This was an action on tbe case, commenced September 25th 1866, by Thomas Johnson and wife against James P. Bruner for negligence which caused tbe death of a son of the plaintiffs, a lad of about fourteen years of age, who was in tbe employ of the defendant, a manufacturer of woollen goods.
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Error to tbe District Court of Philadelphia: No. 126, to January Term 1869. This was an action on tbe case, commenced September 25th 1866, by Thomas Johnson and wife against James P. Bruner for negligence which caused tbe death of a son of the plaintiffs, a lad of about fourteen years of age, who was in tbe employ of the defendant, a manufacturer of woollen goods. Tbe lad was employed in tbe fourth story of tbe factory and fell through an open hatchway to tbe lower floor of tbe building, a distance of about sixty feet. Tbe fourth story was divided into two main rooms. Tbe northern room…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1869, by
Williams, J.
This was an action brought, under the statute, by the parents of a minor son, to recover damages for his death, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defend*61ant. The judge before whom the cause was tried ordered a judgment of nonsuit to be entered, and the court in banc refused to set it aside. As no opinion was delivered in the case, we are left to conjecture the ground on which the nonsuit was sustained. But it must have been either because, in the opinion of the court, the defendant was not shown to have…
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