Graham v. Consolidated Traction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

Melville T. Graham, a child between four and five years of age, was run over by one of the cars of the defendant company and killed, on the 10th day of April, 1896, and this suit was brought by his administrator to recover the pecuniary loss sustained by the next of kin of said decedent by reason of his death. The case came on at the Hudson Circuit, at the September Term, 1896, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of $5,000. A rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted was allowed by…