Neilson v. Hartford Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by the defendant’s negligence; brought to the City Court of Hartford, and tried to the court, McManus, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $3,800 damages, and appeal by the defendant, mainly for alleged errors of fact upon the part of the trial judge. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by the defendant’s negligence; brought to the City Court of Hartford, and tried to the court, McManus, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $3,800 damages, and appeal by the defendant, mainly for alleged errors of fact upon the part of the trial judge. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The Act of 1895 differs materially from the Act of 1893, and was evidently intended by the legislature to avoid the constitutional defects of the Act of 1893, in so far forth as it may have been intended to provide a…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
This is an action to recover damages for bodily injury claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.
The case was brought to the City Court of Hartford at its January term, 1895, and upon a default and hearing in damages judgment was rendered at the folio wing-~October term for the plaintiff, for substantial damages.
Upon the trial the defendant offered in evidence the deposition of one Bertha E. Hunter, taken in February, 1895, because, as was alleged, the witness was about to depart from this State. When the deposition was thus offered the witness was present in court,…
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