Connelly v. Kaufmann & Baer Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Defendant appeals from judgments on verdicts in favor of a parent, suing in his own behalf and on behalf of his minor child, for injuries sustained by the minor on an escalator in defendant’s store in Pittsburgh.

The minor, at the time of injury, was three years and tAvo months old and was in the custody of his mother. She had made several purchases and, according to her testimony, was on a descending escalator holding the boy’s left hand as he stood beside her. She testified that as she stepped from the escalator, at the first floor, the child’s hand “slipped” from…