Francis v. Atlantic Terminals, Inc.

These civil actions were brought against a parent corporation and its subsidiary to recover damages for injuries to person and property received by the plaintiffs in consequence of a collision between a New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company freight train and a motor vehicle owned by the corporate plaintiff and operated by the individual plaintiff. The site of the collision was the point where the defendants’ private road crosses the railroad’s 82 feet wide right-of-way. The cases were tried to a judge and jury in the superior court. After verdicts for the plaintiffs, the trial…