Quinn v. Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 250 and 251, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. Allegheny Co., March T., 1911, No. 727, on separate verdicts for . plaintiffs in case of Cora T. Quinn, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Margaret T. Quinn, and Margaret T. Quinn in her own right, v. City of Pittsburgh. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Evans, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the. Supreme Court.
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Appeals, Nos. 250 and 251, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. Allegheny Co., March T., 1911, No. 727, on separate verdicts for . plaintiffs in case of Cora T. Quinn, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Margaret T. Quinn, and Margaret T. Quinn in her own right, v. City of Pittsburgh. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Evans, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the. Supreme Court. Verdict for Cora T. Quinn for $5,000, and for Margaret T. Quinn in her own right for $887.55, and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned are explained in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
These two cases, one for a recovery of damages by a minor child through a next of kin, and one by the mother of the child in her own right, were tried as one, but are to be separately considered in view of the assignments of error. Cora T. Quinn, a young girl ten years of age in walking across a foot bridge in the City of Pittsburgh, about eighty feet in length, stopped to speak to an acquaintance whom she met. While thus engaged she leaned against the wooden railing of the bridge. The railing gave way, with the result that she fell from the bridge a distance of…
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