Dowe v. Connecticut General Life Ins.

BOWEN, District Judge.

In this case, plaintiff momentarily parked his automobile in a cul-de-sac alleyway while he got out of the car to open his garage doors preparatory to putting his car in the garage. While he was opening the garage doors, the car’s brakes slipped and the car started moving on the down grade of the alley. Plaintiff, observing what was occurring, quickly ran back toward the moving car to stop it, and while trying to get on the car’s left side to set the hand brake he was struck by the moving car’s left front fender, which threw him off balance and penned his legs against…