Bagley v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

During the evening of October 8, 1937, Margaret Mary Bagley, then a minor, while crossing, with a companion, from the east to the west side of the East River Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, at a point north of the Girard Avenue bridge, sustained serious personal injuries when struck by a motorcycle, coming south on the drive at a rate of fifty-five miles per hour and operated by William Cianfrani, a Sergeant of the Fairmount Park Guards, who was pursuing a speeding motorist.

An action of trespass brought in the court below by Margaret Mary Bagley, through her…