Goudreau v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New London County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Reed, J., and from the refusal to set aside this judgment the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, Alphonse Goudreau, while crossing, in an easterly direction, on foot, a railroad bridge over the Shetucket River in the village of Taftville, at about 7 o’clock in the morning of June 29th, 1909, was struck by the defendant’s westbound trolley-car and thrown from the bridge and killed.
The complaint in this action, which was brought to recover damages for such injury, alleges that for many years the bridge in question had been used by persons on foot as a means of crossing said river; that many persons daily crossed the same, as the defendant well knew; that such use…
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