Radwick v. Goldstein
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Reed, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. North Main Street is one of the principal streets in the borough of Naugatuck, and runs in a general northerly and southerly direction. It is forty feet in width, with a seven foot sidewalk on its westerly side.
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Action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Reed, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. North Main Street is one of the principal streets in the borough of Naugatuck, and runs in a general northerly and southerly direction. It is forty feet in width, with a seven foot sidewalk on its westerly side. Upon its easterly side there is no sidewalk. On that side of the street for some distance are double tracks of a trolley turnout occupying…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The reasons of appeal assign as error the trial court’s denial of the plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, its refusal to charge, as requested, in three particulars, and several portions of the charge as given.
Two radically variant versions of the circumstances leading up to and attending the accident, which befell the plaintiff’s intestate, were given by the witnesses produced at the trial. The plaintiff introduced evidence in support of one which pointed unmistakably to negligence on the part of the defendant as its sole contributing cause. The defendant, on…
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