Elliott v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and the loss of his horses and wagon, alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $5,335, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was killed while attempting to drive across the defendant’s railroad at a grade-crossing located near its East Litchfield station. The court refused to direct a verdict for the defendant, or to set aside the plaintiff’s verdict, as it was requested to do by the defendant, and these refusals constitute two of the assigned errors upon which this appeal is based. The ground of the motions was that the evidence failed to show that the intestate, Tetro, was free from contributory negligence, but that it showed, on the contrary, that he was guilty of such negligence, in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Freedman v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
- Smith v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
3Cited by25 opinions
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- Kinderavich v. PalmerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1940
- Pratt, Read & Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925
- Farrington v. CheponisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
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