Clark v. State

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, aged eighteen, was a passenger in a vehicle owned by the state of Connecticut, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, and operated by its employee Jasper; that the vehicle left the road and collided with some trees; and that Jasper was operating at an excessive speed, outside the established lane, and without maintaining proper control of the vehicle.

The defendant filed a special defense alleging that a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was her own negligence in (a) failing to make reasonable use of her own faculties; (b) failing to be…