Gondor v. Pastor

This is a death action brought by the plaintiff as administratrix upon the estate of her brother, Gustav Csakany, late of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The defendants are two in number, namely, George Pastor and the city of Bridgeport. At the time of the episode which resulted in the death of Csakany on the early morning of October 20,1957, when he was struck by a police car operated by the defendant Pastor on Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, the defendant operator was acting in the course of his employment as a police officer in the employ of the defendant municipality, the owner of the car. The…