Nehring v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Holcomb, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, from the judgment upon which the plaintiff appealed. Main Street in Ansonia runs substantially north and south, and is about forty-one feet wide between curbs.
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Action to recover damages for injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Holcomb, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, from the judgment upon which the plaintiff appealed. Main Street in Ansonia runs substantially north and south, and is about forty-one feet wide between curbs. A single line of trolley tracks extends through the middle of it. Bank Street crosses it at substantially right angles. October…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
It is clear and unquestioned that there was evidence, justifying its submission to the jury, tending to establish the defendant’s negligence in the premises directly contributing to produce the fatal injury which the plaintiff’s intestate suffered. The verdict for the defendant was directed upon the ground that the plaintiff had failed to present evidence, sufficient to go to the jury, tending to establish the intestate’s freedom from contributory negligence. Plaintiff’s counsel in his brief formally takes issue with this conclusion of the court, asserting that the evidence was such as…
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