Dexter v. McCready
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an injury from a collision of the defendant’s horse and carriage with the horse and carriage of the plaintiff; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried to the jury before Sail, J. Yerdict for the defendant and appeal by the plaintiff for error in the charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Park, C. J.,
The defendant’s horse took fright and ran away, and his carriage collided with the plaintiff’s horse and carriage in the public street of Norwalk, and the plaintiff’s property was injured.
It appears in the case that on the trial of the cause each party claimed that the other was negligent, and that the collision was the result of such negligence.
It further appears that all the questions involved in the case were submitted by counsel to the jury as questions of fact, and that no questions of law were in controversy between the parties.
The counsel for the plaintiff made but one…
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