Orsinie v. Torrance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the second district in favor of the plaintiff, taken by the defendant to the Superior Court in New London County and reserved by that court, Wolfe, J., upon the finding of the Commissioner, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a laborer at the plant of the Eastern Connecticut Power Company, about seven miles from Norwich. On the day in question the plaintiff and other employees of the defendant had finished their work for the day, and were waiting beside the highway for a trolley-car to take them back to Norwich, when the plaintiff, in crossing the highway to get a ride on a motortruck, was knocked down by a motorcycle and received the injuries in question.
The commissioner held that the principle announced in Swanson v. Latham, 92 Conn. 87, 101 Atl. 492, was applicable…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Swanson v. LathamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1917
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