Demara v. City of Derby

The Plaintiffs were passengers in an automobile operated by ah acquaintance. This acquaintance had stopped to give them a ride and had gone.a distance of but a few yards after taking them in when his car skidded on a slushy road. He attempted to straighten it out but lost control. The car left the road, crossed a trolley track, the rails of which stood above the roadbed, passed over a fairly level strip of land some forty feet wide to the tracks of the defendant railroad company, which tracks were also raised above their bed, across these and plunged down an embankment into the Naugatuck…