Marini v. Wynn

The defendant moved to set aside the verdict for the plaintiff, basing his claim upon the contentions that as a matter of law there was no negligence upon his part and that the plaintiff was contributorily negligent. The plaintiff at about 8 p.m. on October 2,1939, while proceeding northerly across East Main Street in Waterbury, at a point near the center of the highway was struck and seriously injured by the right front part of the defendant’s car which he was driving easterly. East Main Street is fifty-five feet wide at this place and is intersected on the south by Hayden Street. A…