Meyer v. Hart

At the time of the accident the plaintiff was a guest in an automobile belonging to the defendant and being driven by him northerly on Stanley Street, a main thoroughfare between New Britain and Hartford, and down Shephard’s Hill, so-called, which had a steep slope of thirty to thirty-five degrees. At the foot of the hill Stanley Street intersected Hartford Avenue, also a main thoroughfare between New Britain and Hartford, at a sharp acute angle. Two hundred feet south of this intersection on the east side of Shephard’s Hill and south of a high wall of rock was an intersecting street and just…