Hayes v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

At about 9:30 in the evening of December 22, 1931, an automobile operated by the decedent upon the road between En-field and Canaan and in the town of Canaan, came into collision with a telephone pole maintained by the defendant, which stood about three feet from the edge of the tarred surface of the road. The car, of the type known as a coupé, was found, with the decedent unconscious therein, on the right-hand side of the road, with the left-hand door destroyed and the pole imbedded in its left side at a point opposite the driver’s seat. The road was icy and slippery at the time. The…