City Transp. Corp. v. Seckler

The City Transportation Corporation, defendant below, appeals in error from a judgment for $6,500 based upon a jury verdict in favor of William D. Seckler, administrator of the estate of his daughter, aged six years, who was killed by one of defendant’s buses one-half hour after she was dismissed from school.

It is very properly conceded that the verdict is supported by material evidence of common law negligence and of a violation of the 30 mile speed limit in business and residential sections, Code Section 2682 (b), Second and Third. The single insistence made by the assignments is that there…