Essam v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

These two cases were tried together. Each of the plaintiffs obtained a verdict against the defendant, The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. The plaintiff Frank Oliver was a passenger in a motor vehicle oper' ated by the late Frank Essam. Mr. Oliver was injured and Mr. Essam died as a result of the injuries he received. The defendant claims that the verdicts should be set aside because it says that Oliver, a passenger, was in the same situation as was the plain' tiff’s intestate in Boscarello v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co., 112 Conn. 279, and that the late Frank Essam was in…