Landis v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Barnett, P. J.,

41st judicial district, specially presiding,

The plaintiff recovered a verdict of $2165.25 for the death of his son, Donald Landis, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. Binding instructions were requested at the trial and refused, and a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict is now before us.

The death of the boy, who was eleven years and eleven months of age, occurred in the Borough of Hatfield, Pa., on the night of Aug. 12, 1921. Vine Street, running east and west through the borough, is a side street, not closely built up and little…