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DUGAN v. PENNSYLVANIA R.R. CO.

387 Pa. 25 (1956)

Dugan v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 12, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Price, with him Robert M. Landis and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, for appellant.

B. Nathaniel Richter, with him Charles A. Lord and Richter, Lord & Levy, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE CHIDSEY, November 12, 1956:

This is an action in trespass brought on behalf of Daniel Dugan, a minor, by his parents and by them in their own right to recover damages for serious injuries which the minor sustained from an overhead electric power line when he climbed to the top of a train of the defendant Pennsylvania Railroad Company, stopped temporarily at a signal on one of its main line tracks. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the...

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