Petrillo v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile through a collision with a trolley-car alleged to have been caused by negligence of the defendant’s motorman, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Simpson, J., and from the refusal to set aside this judgment the plaintiff appealed.
1Per curiam
Upon the evidence presented by the plaintiff, assumed to be true, it would have been impossible for a trier reasonably to find that he was free from contributory negligence. There was no substantial evidence to that effect worthy of being weighed and considered by the jury. On the contrary, the evidence unmistakably shows that the plaintiff’s negligence was a proximate cause of the head-on collision between his car and the defendant’s, in that he failed to discover, as in the exercise of ordinary prudence he should have done, the presence of the defendant’s trolley-car approaching him from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nehring v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
3Cited by11 opinions
- Fine v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1918
- Correnti v. CatinoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1932
- Richard v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Carta v. City of NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- DePaola v. SeamourSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
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