Pilon v. Alderman

The plaintiff Edward I. Pilón was riding in an automobile, driven by his wife, westerly on Hartford Avenue in Farmington. Snow was falling, covering the highway to a depth of three or four inches and clinging to the windshields of cars. After following another car for some distance the vehicle in which the plaintiffs were riding skidded to its left onto trolley rails, straightened out, then skidded again diagonally to the left, across the highway and stopped against the railing of a culvert about eight feet south of the traveled portion of the highway. The defendants’ car, which had been…