Wolf v. Sulik
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover, damages for negligently running into and injuring the plaintiff’s wagon upon the highway, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Smith, ./.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $85, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The complaint alleges that while the plaintiff was driving his wagon on the highway it was injured by defendant’s automobile, which was then being negligently operated by the defendant’s husband on the left-hand side of the road and at a reckless rate of speed.
The injury and the husband’s negligent violation of the law of the road are sufficiently established by the evidence, and the claim that the defendant is liable for the injury inflicted by her husband is based on § 1572 of the General Statutes: “If the owner of any horse or other animal, or of any vehicle, shall entrust such animal or…
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