Bettilyon v. C. E. Smith & Son, Inc.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Wolfe, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBurpee, J.
The plaintiff assigns the following portion of the trial judge’s charge to the jury for a reason of appeal: “Reference has been made by both parties to this controversy to the rules of the road which motor vehicles, when meeting at the intersection of streets, must obey. As the collision in question occurred at the intersection of two streets in the city of New Haven, that rule has an important bearing upon the facts in this case.”
The plaintiff’s counsel concedes that the rule of the road to which the court referred is stated in the Public Acts of 1919, Chapter 233, § 26 (c), as follows:…
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