LaFemina v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

These material facts appear from the court’s finding, which is not subject to correction: At about 10 p.m. on May 2, 1944, the defendant Martin, as agent of the named defendant, was driving its automobile with headlights on low beam easterly on Wooster Street in New Haven at about twenty miles per hour. The weather was fair and the black pavement, which was twenty-nine feet nine inches between curbs, was dry. A small truck headed east was parked at the curb some eighty feet west of the plaintiff’s house on the south side of the street. There was no street light which illuminated the immediate…