Driscoll v. Norwich & Worcester Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injury alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the defendant ; brought to the Superior Court in New London County and heard in damages to the court, George W. Wheeler, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $4,500 damages, from which the defendant appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Action to recover damages for personal injury alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the defendant ; brought to the Superior Court in New London County and heard in damages to the court, George W. Wheeler, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $4,500 damages, from which the defendant appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. It is a general rule of law that a railroad corporation cannot by- its own act, without the consent of the legislature absolve itself of its public obligations.…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The defendant is a corporation chartered by the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from Worcester, in Massachusetts, to Norwich, in Connecticut, and thence *237to tide-water on Long Island Sound. The complaint alleges that the defendant, through its agents and servants, on the 28th day of January, 1898, then having in their possession and control a certain engine and cars, the property of the defendant, and then running and moving the same upon the said railroad in the city of Norwich, in the exercise of their franchise and in…
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