Pins v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions by a married woman and her husband, to recover damages suffered by reason of personal injuries to the former, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried together to the jury before Gager, Jverdicts and judgments thereon in favor of the plaintiffs — for the wife for $4,000, and for the husband for $675, — and appeals by the defendant.
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Actions by a married woman and her husband, to recover damages suffered by reason of personal injuries to the former, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried together to the jury before Gager, Jverdicts and judgments thereon in favor of the plaintiffs — for the wife for $4,000, and for the husband for $675, — and appeals by the defendant. Sarah Pins, the plaintiff in one of these companion actions, at about ten o’clock in the evening, boarded a car of the defendant at a point in the town of Orange, and, paying…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
One of the underlying questions in these cases is whether or not the defendant, at the time when and the place where Mrs. Pins received her injuries, owed her any duty in respect to the condition of the path she was traversing and its suitability for her travel over it.
The defendant contends that she had ceased to be its passenger when she alighted from the car at the transfer point, and that thereafter it had no responsibility for her safety until she should again enter a car to complete her journey. The court refused to so instruct the jury, and told them that her relation to the company as…
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- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. WintersIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Keator v. Scranton Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Conroy v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
- Powers v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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