Legal Opinion
Yu v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 17, 1958PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMellitz, J.
The plaintiff was injured while alighting from a railroad coach at the defendant’s railroad station in New Haven on the evening of April 2,1955. Upon a trial to the court, the defendant was found negligent in failing to provide assistance to the plaintiff in alighting. It has appealed from a judgment rendered for the plaintiff.
The facts found, with such corrections as are warranted, are as follows: The plaintiff at the time of the accident was thirty-seven years old and about five feet two inches in height. A disease of the right hip caused her to walk with a pronounced limp, noticeable to…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Roden v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
- Marley v. New England Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1947
- Southern Railway Co. v. ReevesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
- Thomason v. Chicago Motor Coach Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1937
- Dokus v. PalmerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1943
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- Culetsu v. DixSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1962
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