Cottle v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by an administratrix for damages for negligence causing the death of her intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence a non-suit was granted, under General Statutes, § 761, and a motion to set it aside was afterward denied.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The plaintiff’s evidence presented this case:—
The intestate, while driving, in the town where he had long resided, on the highway at a point where it was crossed at grade by the defendant’s railroad, was struck and killed by a train consisting of two cars and a locomotive with its tender. The train had just come around a curve, and was going at a speed of some thirty miles an hour, headed by the tender. The crossing was a dangerous one. The view of the track to one driving toward it on the highway was obstructed by a hill and a bank wall between the track and the highway, extending back from…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Morse v. Consolidated Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- Fay v. Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- Dundon v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Lord v. LamonteSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Lynahan v. ChurchSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Hayes v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1917
- Elliott v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
- Kwasniewski v. N.Y., N.H., H.R.R. Co.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1933
- Falkerson v. The New York, New Haven & Hartford R. CoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Borglum v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1915
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