Block v. Pascucci

The defendant Luigi Pascucci, operating an open automobile as the agent of his wife Giulia, the owner, left it standing on Barbour Street, in Hartford, at a point nearly opposite the plaintiff’s store, and went into the apartment of a Mrs. Trembley. While he was absent a child of Mrs. Trembley, about three years old, was observed in a bending position in the front of the car, and soon thereafter the car backed across the street and crashed through a plate-glass window into the plaintiff’s store, with disastrous consequences to the window, merchandise displayed therein, and adjacent stock and…