Shepard v. New Haven & Northampton Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass on the case for an injury to the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the defendants; brought to the Superior Court in Tolland County. The defendants suffered a default, and on the hearing in damages before a committee the facts were found and the damages assessed, upon one view of the law at $300, and upon another at $10. The court (Quiver, I.,') accepted the report and rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover $300 damages.
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Trespass on the case for an injury to the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the defendants; brought to the Superior Court in Tolland County. The defendants suffered a default, and on the hearing in damages before a committee the facts were found and the damages assessed, upon one view of the law at $300, and upon another at $10. The court (Quiver, I.,') accepted the report and rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover $300 damages. The defendants brought the record before this court by a motion in error. Tiie case is sufficiently, stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
On the 8th of October, 1870, the defendants undertook for hire to carry the plaintiff safely over a portion of their railroad. He instituted this suit against them for an alleged failure in the discharge of their duty in this respect, and in his declaration described the nature and manner of the wrong in the following words: “While said train was in rapid motion, he, actuated by a reasonable fear of the loss of Ms life by remaining on said train, and in view of an apparently unavoidable and inevitable collision with another train of cars with its engine, the same also being the property of…
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