Vincent v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This appeal of the City of Philadelphia is directed to the excessiveness of the verdicts. The action was to recover damages resulting from the death of a minor child. In order to reach a proper legal result in such cases it must steadfastly be borne in mind that the law is concerned only with the economic and not the human value of the life that has been taken; it does not attempt to measure in money the parental anguish caused by a child’s death.

The victim of the accident was a six-year-old girl who was struck and almost instantly killed by a city truck.…