Stitham v. Leware

This negligence action involved a. collision between two automobiles and resulted in a plaintiffs verdict. The defendant has appealed from the refusal to set it aside and from the judgment.

The collision occurred at the intersection of a public highway in Newtown and a private driveway leading from the plaintiffs home, which is located easterly of the street. The paved road was substantially twenty-eight feet wide and had no shoulder along its easterly edge, but there was a gutter five or six inches in width at the junction of the driveway and the street. The defendant states in his brief that…