Biddle v. Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 8, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 132. This was an action of trespass on the case brought by Francis F. Biddle and Martha Biddle, parents of Clarence Biddle, to recover damages for the death of their son through the alleged negligence of the defendants. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 8, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 132. This was an action of trespass on the case brought by Francis F. Biddle and Martha Biddle, parents of Clarence Biddle, to recover damages for the death of their son through the alleged negligence of the defendants. Plea, not guilty. On the trial before Ludlow, P. J., the following facts appeared: Clarence Biddle, about twelve years old, son of the plaintiffs, the boy who was killed, .was, with two other boys, in Fairmount Park. They came to defendant’s car, which was a one-horse car, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
That the defendant’s driver, or conductor, was grossly negligent in compelling a child of twelve years of age to jump, and that backwards, from the platform of a moving car, no one can well deny. Even the boy Solnack knew better than that, and did what he could to prevent the accident. To discuss, therefore, evidence which throughout shows a reckless carelessness of which no man of ordinary discretion ought to have been guilty, would be to no purpose; hence, we may regard the case as fully disposed of when we have made a brief statement of the law which ought to have governed the court below.…
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