Lynch v. Shearer
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for damages for negligently killing the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury (Case, J.). A nonsuit was granted and a motion to set it aside denied.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The plaintiff’s evidence, taking it in the most favorable light for him, is such that we cannot say that the jury might not have found the following state of facts:—
In the afternoon of March 12th, 1908, the defendant was managing an automobile which was proceeding along one of the principal streets in the city of New Haven, at an excessive rate of speed. The automobile contained live young men, who were talking and laughing. It reached a bridge, crossing over a railroad, without slowing down, and on the left-hand side of the street. A boy of eleven (the plaintiff’s intestate) who was on this…
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