Dwyer v. Connecticut Co.

The plaintiff was injured by being struck and knocked from the running board of a moving trolley car on which he was a passenger, when his body came in contact with a standing truck which the car was passing. His contentions are that the conductor and the motorman, servants of the defendant company, and the defendants Stemple and McFarland, owners of the truck, were negligent, the latter in allowing the truck to stand so near the trolley rails, and the former in moving the trolley car past the truck under the circumstances more particularly set out. The jury rendered a verdict for the…