Case v. Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of his automobile, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,500 damages, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of his automobile, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,500 damages, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff claimed to have established the following facts in the trial court:— The plaintiff is the administratrix of the estate of her late husband, Frederick T. Case, who, on the 14th of November, 1908, was…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
The defendant appeals from the refusal of the trial court to set the verdict aside as against the evidence, and also appeals from the judgment for alleged errors of the trial court in declining to charge as requested, in the charge as given, and in certain rulings upon questions of evidence.
The defendant has brought up the entire evidence, consisting of some three hundred and fifty printed pages, to support his claim that the court should have set aside the verdict as against the evidence. Upon an examination of it we are satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to justify the jury in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Freedman v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
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