Naylor v. Haviland
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of an automobile, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Bennett, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $2,500, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The plaintiff’s decedent was getting off a trolley-car at the intersection of Colorado Avenue and State Street, which is a customary stopping place for trolley-cars in the city of Bridgeport, when he was struck by the defendant’s automobile coming from the opposite direction to that in which the trolley-car had been moving. The defendant’s automobile was traveling in an easterly direction on the north or left-hand side of the highway, because the south side of State Street for some distance at and near the place of the accident was impassable for traffic on account of paving operations. The…
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