Trask v. New Haven Shore Line Railway Company

The main issue in this case is whether the court could have reasonably concluded that neither defendant was guilty of negligence. The following facts were found: The plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile being driven by her husband the defendant Trask, from Saybrook to Hartford. A bus was being operated by the defendant company on the same highway in the opposite direction. The accident occurred about 4.30 p.m. on February 2, 1939, on a hill. The road here was straight for eight hundred feet and the grade descended toward Middletown. It was eighteen feet wide, crowned and constructed of…