Sagor v. Joseph Burnett Co.

The plaintiff, a boy ten years of age, riding a bicycle, with a companion on the handlebars, came into collision with an automobile driven by defendant’s agent at a street intersection in New Haven, and was injured. The defendant claimed to' have proved that the plaintiff in making a left-hand turn at the intersection failed to keep to the right of the center of the intersection and in so doing ran into the defendant’s automobile causing his injuries. The trial court referred to the statute (General Statutes, Cum. Sup. 1935, § 636c) “which provides that when the operator of any vehicle—and…