Pettingill v. Perkins

LARSON, District Judge.

Appeal from verdict and judgment of the District Court of Weber County.

On the 22nd day of July, 1952, Keith W, Pettingill, age 26 months, died in an automobile-pedestrian accident on 300 East Street, Clearfield, Davis County, Utah. The child was playing in front of his home, toddling back and forth across the street with a little sand bucket. His mother sat -in front of the house working a jig-saw ■ puzzle. Defendant, with his wife, was driving northward along the street at about 10 ■ miles an hour. He did not see the child and ran over it, killing it.

Plaintiff, the…