Legal Opinion
Sizer v. Lenney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided June 3, 1959PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
The minor plaintiff, by her next friend, sued to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as a passenger in an automobile operated by the named defendant, also a minor, as the admitted agent of his mother, Christine E. Lenney, the defendant owner. It was alleged in the complaint and admitted in the answer that the car, headed west, “went out of control, skidded across the highway, struck a highway fence post” and came to rest on the south shoulder of the road.
Evidence that the defendant operator had ascribed the accident to a sudden application of the brakes to avoid a dog which ran…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Nichols v. NicholsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1940
- Danahy v. CuneoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1943
- Johnson v. Rockaway Bus CorporationSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1958
- Perrelli v. SavasSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1932
- State v. SegarSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1921
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Stanley Works v. New Britain Redevelopment AgencySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1967
- Pluhowsky v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1964
- State v. CuvelierSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1978
- Cutlip v. Connecticut Motor Vehicles CommissionerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1975
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