Court Opinion

ID: 8071426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 11:29:59.11312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:14.966944
License: Public Domain

MacLEAN, J.
An infant of tender years—three years and four months—walked out of an apartment, where they were visiting, on the first floor above the' street, before its mother, saying, “I will open the door for you, mamma, and then I want to look at the music store to see what is there.” Then she went down the stairs, and crossed the street towards the music store, which, as the mother knew, was on the opposite side of the street, and was injured by the horses or the wagon of the defendant, a little in front of which she was seen by the only witness who testified for the plaintiff, stooping down in a position and situation which for a person of years of discretion would have been negligence. It was therefore negligence on the part of the mother, ‘he natural and actual guardian of the child, who, unattended and unwarned, was allowed to go into and across the street, occupied on a holiday with crowds of many people and vehicles of divers sorts. For this actual and imputable negligence, judgment must be reversed.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event. All concur.