Bird v. Connecticut Power Co.

The plaintiff instituted this action to recover pension payments alleged to be due from the defendants. Upon the trial of the case to the jury, the court directed a verdict in favor of the defendants. The plaintiff has appealed, assigning as error the direction of the verdict, the refusal to set it aside, and certain rulings on evidence which, in the view we take of the case, have become academic.

Considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the evidence would have justified the jury in finding the following facts: The defendant Hartford Electric Light Company, hereinafter called…