Citizens' Passenger Railway Co. v. Foxley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 153. This was an action on the case by Christina Foxley by her father and next friend, Jolm Foxley, against the Citizens’ Passenger Bailway Company of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for an injury caused to said Christina, then a child of four years of age, by being run over by a street car of the defendant company on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 153. This was an action on the case by Christina Foxley by her father and next friend, Jolm Foxley, against the Citizens’ Passenger Bailway Company of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for an injury caused to said Christina, then a child of four years of age, by being run over by a street car of the defendant company on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. The material facts of the case, as they appeared on the trial, before Stowe, P. J., are briefly stated in the foregoing syllabus and fully stated in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This action was brought by Christina Foxley, a little child of the age of four years, by her father and next friend, John Foxley, against the Citizens’ Passenger Railway Company of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for personal injuries received by her on the fifth day of June, 1882. The child was at the time a student attending the Ralston Public School at or neár the corner of Penn avenue and Fifteenth street, in the city of Pittsburgh. At the disihissal of the school, in the afternoon of the day mentioned, she crossed the avenue upon which the defendant’s tracks are laid, and was on her…
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