Rosenthal v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury-before Tuttle, J., and from the refusal of the trial court to set aside this judgment the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The plaintiff, with two friends, was playing cards in the smoking-car of a train running from New York to Hartford, when it was suddenly stopped a short distance before reaching the New Haven station, and at the same moment a suit-case fell from the rack over the seat in which the plaintiff was then sitting and struck him on the head, inflicting an injury which then appeared to be slight, but from which serious consequences afterward developed. The plaintiff’s friends had placed two suit-cases in the rack, one over the other, before the train started from New York.
The plaintiff makes a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Work v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Zeigler v. Danbury & Norwalk RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
- Thorson v. Groton & Stonington Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
3Cited by11 opinions
- Belledeau v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
- Williamson v. Pacific Greyhound LinesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1947
- Robinson v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1936
- Connelly v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1928
- Bowes v. New England Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1940
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