Currie v. Consolidated Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for a negligent collision with a carriage on the highway, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; verdict for the defendant, by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove these facts: —
He keeps a livery-stable in New Haven, and one Mun-son had been in his employ for a year or two as a driver of a coupé. About two o’clock on April 26th, 1906, Mun-son hired from the stable a light “runabout” wagon containing but one seat, to which he hitched one of the plaintiff’s horses, and drove off. About nine hours later the wagon was struck in the rear and wrecked by an electric car of the defendant. The place of the collision was on Dixwell Avenue, about four miles from the center of the city in a comparatively thinly…
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