Layman v. Gearhart

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

These appeals are from the refusal of the court below to take off a nonsuit entered in a trespass action instituted for the recovery of damages for injuries sustained by a minor-pedestrian when struck by an automobile.

At approximately two o’clock in the afternoon of December 8, 1951 — a clear day — appellee was driving his automobile in an easterly direction on a macadam state highway which runs generally from Connellsville to Melcroft in Fayette County, this state. As this highway passes through the hamlet of Clinton, it is intersected at right angles…