Donovan v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This case was before us in 84 Conn. 531, 80 Atl. 779. The pleadings remain unchanged.
The complaint alleges that the intestate suffered injuries through the derailment of the defendant’s car by reason of the defendant permitting its trolley-car, equipped with front vestibule doors, which were very difficult and almost impossible to operate, with wheels which were old, worn out, broken, cracked and worn flat on one side, and the flanges of which were worn out, chipped, broken, and insufficient to hold the car on the rail, and with old, worn out, and broken scrapers, to be operated over a track…
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