Cook v. Packard Motor Car Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an injury to the plaintiff’s automobile caused by the negligence of the defendant, resulting in the loss of the use of the car for several weeks, brought to the City Court of Hartford and tried to the jury before Bullard, J.; upon motion of the defendant the court directed, and the jury returned, a verdict for the plaintiff for $1, from the judgment upon which the plaintiff appealed.
1DissentWheeler, J.
I concur in the result and agree that there was error in the judgment appealed from, but differ with the rule adopted in the majority opinion upon the two questions of evidence passed upon.
The plaintiff sought to recover the value of the use of his automobile, which was damaged while in the care of the defendant in its garage by its negligence, together with the wages of his chauffeur during the period of loss of use of the automobile.. Error is assigned in the exclusion of the testimony of an expert as to the rental value per day of a car similar to the plaintiff’s, because the plaintiff…
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