Hughes v. New Haven Taxicab Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile, and for expenses incurred by the plaintiff in consequence of personal injuries received by. his daughter, all of which were alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servant while driving another automobile, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Bennett, J., from which judgment he appealed.
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Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile, and for expenses incurred by the plaintiff in consequence of personal injuries received by. his daughter, all of which were alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servant while driving another automobile, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Bennett, J., from which judgment he appealed. Error and new trial ordered.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The plaintiff sues to recover damages for injuries done his automobile and to his minor daughter by the defendant’s agent having negligently driven one of its automobiles against the plaintiff’s automobile, which the daughter was operating.
The case was nonsuited upon two grounds: (1) That the plaintiff’s automobile at the time of the accident was being operated by the daughter, an unlicensed person, unaccompanied by a licensed operator in violation of § 5 of chapter 85 of the Public Acts of 1911. (2) That upon the facts in evidence the plaintiff was chargeable with the negligence of this…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bourne v. WhitmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
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