Brangi v. Marshall

The plaintiff presented his evidence and rested his case, and the defendants, offering no evidence, also rested, whereupon the court directed the jury to bring in a verdict for the defendants, on the ground that, upon the evidence, the plaintiff was contributorily negligent as a matter of law. The car of the plaintiff and the defendants’ truck were in collision at the intersection of Hamilton and Water Streets in New Haven. The jury could reasonably have found that the plaintiff was driving his car south on the west side of Hamilton Street and the defendants’ truck was being driven east on…