Bates v. Carroll
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries and resulting death, alleged to have been eaused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Brown, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $7,527, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The plaintiff’s decedent was injured in an automobile accident on October 24th, 1920, and died some fourteen months thereafter. The greater part of the verdict was for his death which resulted from a sarcoma or cancer, which the plaintiff claimed, and the jury must have found, was caused by a traumatic injury occurring in this accident.
The only substantial ground of the appeal from the denial of the motion to set aside the verdict, concerns the question as . to whether the jury could, upon the evidence before them, have reasonably found that the eancer was caused by a traumatic injury…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Morse v. Consolidated Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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