Prato v. Coffey

The two plaintiffs joined in this action to recover for the damage each sustained when the defendant’s automobile, in which they were passengers, collided at a street intersection in Hartford with a car driven by Charles Yaffa. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant and the plaintiffs have appealed, assigning error in the court’s denial of their motion to set aside the verdict and in its charge to the jury.

About 2 a. m. on October 7, 1945, the plaintiffs were passengers seated upon the rear seat of the defendant’s sedan as he drove westerly on Asylum Street approaching Broad Street,…