Johnson v. Mattus

Defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of the infant plaintiff for personal injuries and of the adult plaintiff for loss of services after a trial before a court without a jury.

At the trial it was claimed by plaintiffs that the infant — who was then seven years old — was injured on the afternoon of April 24,1957 when he was struck by a truck — owned, controlled and driven, respectively, by the defendants — on East 100th Street between First and Second Avenues in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. The truck, which had been proceeding south along Second Avenue, had turned into East…