Sontgen v. Kittanning & Ford City Street Railway
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Sontgen v. Kittanning & Ford City Street Railway, 213 Pa. 114 (Pa. 1905)
62 A. 523; 1905 Pa. LEXIS 385
Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter, Stewart
Sontgen v. Kittanning & Ford City Street Railway
Opinion of the Court
The evidence failed to show any negligence on the part of the defendant. The only witness called who saw the accident testified that the child was playing behind a pile of earth about five or six feet from the track and suddenly ran out on the track when the car was not more than four feet away. The case belongs to the class of Chilton v. Central Traction Co., 152 Pa. 425 ; Funk v. Electric Traction Co., 175 Pa. 559; Kline v. Electric Traction Co., 181 Pa. 276 ; Callary v. Easton Transit Co., 185 Pa. 176, and Miller v. Union Traction Co., 198 Pa. 639.
As this is decisive of the whole case the other questions do not require notice.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Negligence — Street railways — Infants—Nonsuit. In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of a child five years old, run over by a car, a nonsuit is properly entered, where the only witness who saw the accident testified that the child was playing behind a pile of earth about five or six feet from the track and suddenly ran out on the track when the car was not more than four feet away.