Fonsworth v. Sudol

The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant Charles Mitchell in a negligence action arising out of a motor vehicle collision. The jury could reasonably have found that the plaintiff Frank E. Fonsworth, Jr.,1 was a passenger in a van operated by the defendant Charles Mitchell (hereinafter the defendant)2 when it was hit from the rear by a vehicle operated by the named defendant, Steven B. Sudol, on Main Street in Hartford. Immediately before the collision, both vehicles had been stopped at a traffic light. When the light turned green, the vehicles proceeded through…