Kebbe v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to Lave been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Reed, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,200, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
The plaintiff claimed to have proved that on the 30th of May, 1911, which was Decoration Day, she entered the defendant’s open single-truck trolley-car, all the seats of which, running entirely across the car, were occupied, and that while she was standing between the two seats which face each other, at the forward end of the car, she was, by the defendant’s negligence, thrown down and injured as the car was passing around a curve.
These three acts of negligence are described in paragraphs three, four and five of the complaint as causing the injury: (1) “Owing to the negligent failure of the…
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- McCumber v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
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