Court Opinion

ID: 5357462
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 07:09:05.00331+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:49.802211
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
The charge of the court that the infant plaintiff “ is not held to such a high degree of care as an adult or a person of mature years ” was inadequate as a statement of the principles of law applicable to a child eight years of age, for the court failed to charge the degree of care to be required. The court should, in' substance, have charged at the request of the plaintiffs’ attorney *749that the duty of the infant plaintiff was to exercise a degree of care commensurate with her age and capacity.
The judgment and order should be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellants to abide the event.
Present — Martin, P. J., Glennon, Untermyer, Cohn and Callahan, JJ.; Callahan, J., concurs in result; Cohn, J., dissents.
Judgment and order reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellants to abide the event.