Keirn v. McLaughlin

Riley, Judge:

In this action of trespass on the case, instituted in the Circuit Court of Pocahontas County by Elmer Keirn, infant, by B. S. Keirn, his next friend, against Cam McLaughlin, the plaintiff sought to recover for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained from being run over by a school bus owned by defendant and operated by him under a contract with the board of education of Pocahontas County. To a judgment in the amount of $2500.00, based upon a jury verdict, this writ of error is prosecuted.

The three counts of the amended declaration, upon which the case was tried, in…