Mendez v. Dorman

At about nine o’clock on the morning of Monday, September 23, 1957, the plaintiff, a boy of sixteen, was riding as a passenger on the back of a bicycle operated by another boy in a westerly direction along Boston Avenue, in Bridgeport. The defendant was operating a tractor-trailer truck, also in a westerly direction, along the same street. A dump truck was parked, also headed west, at the northerly curb of Boston Avenue. The day was clear and the pavement was dry. When the bicycle was approximately alongside the parked dump truck, the right rear wheel of the defendant’s trailer collided with…