Stuart v. Doyle
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions by a wife and her husband, respectively, the former to recover damages for personal injuries, and the latter for injuries to his automobile and for expenses incurred by him for medical services to his wife, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried together to the jury before Greene, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff wife for 13,500 and for the plaintiff husband for $686,…
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Actions by a wife and her husband, respectively, the former to recover damages for personal injuries, and the latter for injuries to his automobile and for expenses incurred by him for medical services to his wife, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried together to the jury before Greene, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff wife for 13,500 and for the plaintiff husband for $686, against the defendants Doyle and Shepard, and in favor of the defendant O’Neil,1 from which the losing defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
The error assigned in each case is the refusal of the trial court to set aside the verdict rendered, as contrary to and against the evidence.
The court filed findings of certain undisputed facts, which are, in substance, as follows:—
On August 21st, 1918, the plaintiff John C. Stuart, accompanied by his wife, the plaintiff Eleanor M. Stuart, was driving his automobile northerly from East Hartford to South Windsor, Connecticut. Stuart’s automobile was following the automobile of the defendant O’Neil. The defendant Doyle was driving an automobile in a southerly direction on the same high way. At…
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