Tarasewicz v. Bowker

This is a statutory action for damages arising from death by wrongful act. R.S. 2:47-1 et seq. A verdict was directed for defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.

Helen Tarasewicz, fifteen years old, was one of a group of girls, twelve or more in number, who were walking along a country road near Pemberton, going for a swim, when the defendant, whom most of them knew, came by in his five-passenger convertible automobile. They asked him to take them to the swimming pool, but he protested there were too many of them. So they coaxed him. "He said, `Well, if the rest of the kids get in the car.' We…