Russell v. Vergason
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Kellogg, J.; verdict for the plaintiff for $3,000, which the trial court, upon motion of the defendant, set aside as against the evidence, and from this decision the plaintiff appealed. The defendant filed a bill of exceptions which was allowed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The trial court set aside the verdict and the plaintiff appeals.
The jury might reasonably have found from the evidence offered by the plaintiff: that she stepped from the stoop in front of Banning’s store to the Norwich road, a highway in Norwich, in order to go straight across this highway to the only sidewalk upon it, located on its west side; that as she did so she looked for conveyances approaching from the north, and seeing none continued on directly across the highway, traveling at a speed of about three miles an hour, covering the eighteen feet to the double trolley-tracks, the fifteen…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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