Stroud v. Board of Water Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s automobile by a collision on the highway which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of a servant of the defendant in driving its motor-truck, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Burpee, J., and from the refusal of the trial court to set aside such judgment he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that he was the owner of the injured motor-car; that he had falsely registered it under the name of W. Lennox as the owner; that at all times thereafter it remained so falsely registered; that plaintiff had driven it for pleasure about the State from one thousand five hundred to two thousand miles in the course of the summer; that on the day of the accident he drove it from Middletown to Hartford, and on arriving at the Hotel Heublein left it in a part of the highway opposite the hotel which is commonly used for parking automobiles, with all power shut…
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