Hyde v. Hubinger
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence in the management and operation of an automobile, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Gager, J., from which judgment he appealed. No error.
1Per curiam
The granting of a nonsuit in this case,' in which the charge is that the plaintiff, a child a few months over four years of age, was injured by being struck while in a public street in Ansonia by the defendant’s automobile operated at the time by himself, was amply justified. No evidence was offered from which the jury could reasonably have found negligent conduct on the defendant’s part. There was an entire absence of testimony that he was traveling at an excessive speed, that he did not have his car under suitable control, or that he failed to exercise due care in any respect or at any…
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