Purdy v. Hazeltine

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This suit is by parents in their own right and on behalf of their child for injuries to the child alleged to have resulted from contact with defendant’s automobile in a street in Washington, Pennsylvania. The jury rendered verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs. The learned court below granted defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in the parents’ case but refused the motion in the minor’s case; defendant has appealed from the judgment for the minor.

The child, aged four years, was injured on Wylie Avenue between Allison and Jefferson Avenues, two…