Legal Opinion

Irwin v. Judge

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided January 6, 1909PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Scott, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $500, and appeal by the defendant.

1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.

The plaintiff, who at the time of the accident by which she was injured was sixteen years of age, brings this action by her next friend, alleging in her complaint that on the 1st day of August, 1906, at about six o’clock in the afternoon, when she was going southerly down North Main Street, on the right-hand side of the street, in the city of South Norwalk, riding a bicycle at a moderate rate of speed, she was, at a described point, run into and injured by an autocar going northerly on the left-hand side of the road, which was driven by the defendant at a high rate of speed; and that the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. McIntyre v. OrnerIndiana Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Thies v. ThomasNew York Supreme Court · 1902
  3. Buscher v. New York Transportation Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. O'Dowd v. NewnhamCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
  2. Deputy v. KimmellWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1914
  3. Peigh v. Baltimore & O. R. CoCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
  4. Schultz v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1911
  5. State v. GoetzSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910

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