Branch v. Mashkin Freight Lines, Inc.

The plaintiff, a pedestrian, was struck at an intersection in Hartford by the truck of the named defendant, driven by the other defendant, its agent Raymond Audet, hereinafter referred to as the defendant. The defendants have appealed from the denial of their motion to set aside the plaintiff’s verdict and from the judgment.

The jury reasonably could have found the following facts: Asylum Street in Hartford is one way for westerly traffic and thirty-two feet wide. Ann Street is forty feet wide and intersects Asylum Street at right angles. There was a bus station at the northeast corner. At the…