Jacobs v. Connecticut Co.

The plaintiff sued for injuries claimed to have been sustained when she was struck by a northbound automobile driven by Oliver Lambert as she was crossing Temple Street in New Haven from west to east.

The plaintiff’s claims of proof included the following: She was a passenger on the defendant’s common car rier motor bus traveling easterly on Elm Street in New Haven. The bus made a right turn into Temple Street and stopped, facing south, on the west side of Temple Street. Thereupon the plaintiff alighted from the right rear door and, after stepping over to the curb on the west side of Temple…